Marta Victoria

Dec 16, 2024 | nature.com | Marta Victoria

AbstractAs energy systems transform to rely on renewable energy and electrification to mitigate climate change, they encounter stronger year-to-year variability in energy supply and demand. Yet, most infrastructure planning relies on a single weather year, risking a potential lack of robustness. In this paper, we optimize capacity layouts for a European energy system under net-zero CO2 emissions for 62 different weather years.

Jul 13, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Marta Victoria

1 INTRODUCTION Solar photovoltaics (PV) has shown a fast deployment in the last decade and its cumulative global capacity attained 942 GW in 20211, 2; see Figure 1A. From a global perspective, land used by solar PV should not represent a problem.

Jun 23, 2023 | nature.com | Marta Victoria |Tom Brown |Elisabeth Zeyen

Model descriptionWe use the open-source European sector coupled model PyPSA-Eur-Sec30, which minimises total system costs while optimising generation, storage and distribution capacity and dispatch. It covers energy and feedstock demand in the sectors electricity, heating, transport and industry. The model has already been presented in detail in various publications33,47,48,49, so in the following only the newly implemented features for this study are presented.