Renewables: Share data on wind energy

Energy in buildings: Efficiency, renewables and storage

— This lecture summary provides a short but comprehensive overview on the “energy and buildings” topic. Buildings account for roughly 40% of the global energy demands. Thus, an increased adoption of existing and upcoming materials and solutions for the building sector represents an enormous potential to reduce building related energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. The central question is...

Wind Resource Quality Affected by High Levels of Renewables

For solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind resources, the capacity factor is an important parameter describing the quality of the resource. As the share of variable renewable resources (such as PV and wind) on the electric system is increasing, so does curtailment (and the fraction of time when it cannot be avoided). At high levels of renewable generation, curtailments effectively change the practica...

Renewable Energy Policy Considerations for Deploying Renewables

Taylor Law in Wind Energy Data

The Taylor power law (or temporal fluctuation scaling), is a scaling relationship of the form σ ∼ 〈P 〉 where σ is the standard deviation and 〈P 〉 the mean value of a sample of a time series has been observed for power output data sampled at 5 min and 1 s and from five wind farms and a single wind turbine, located at different places. Furthermore, an analogy with the turbulence field is performe...

On the Public Policies Supporting Renewables and Wind Power Overcapacity: Insights into the European Way Forward