A Multi-Decadal Hourly Coincident Wind and Solar Power Production Dataset for the Contiguous United States

AM Campbell, C Bracken, S Underwood, N Voisin - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
As renewable energy continues its rapid expansion in the Unites States, multi-decadal
hourly datasets of electricity production are needed to asses reliability and resource …

Hydroclimate Risks to the Western US Electric Grid under a Warming Climate

A Marshall, S Upadhyay - Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Changing hydroclimate creates risks to the western US electric
grid, particularly when hydropower generation changes, but tools to characterize these risks …

Frequency, duration, severity of energy drought and its propagation in hydro-wind-photovoltaic complementary systems

H Lei, P Liu, Q Cheng, H Xu, W Liu, Y Zheng, X Chen… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Analyzing low-renewable-output events, termed “energy droughts” is crucial for renewable
energy systems. However, due to the challenges in hydropower regulation and complex …

Unraveling climate change-induced compound low-solar-low-wind extremes in China

L Wang, Y Liu, L Zhao, X Lu, L Huang… - National Science …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
China's pursuit of carbon neutrality targets hinges on a profound shift towards low-carbon
energy, primarily reliant on intermittent and variable, yet crucial, solar and wind power …

Current-Day and Future Dunkelflaute Risks for Belgium

F Duchêne, B Van Schaeybroeck… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Dunkelflautes, events of low renewable production and potentially high demand, are the
most extreme examples of the susceptibility of a renewable energy system with respect to …

[PDF][PDF] Power flow modeling of the impacts of weather and other resiliency hazards with a focus on transmission planning

F Safdarian, J Cook, K Zhgun… - 58th Hawaii …, 2025 - overbye.engr.tamu.edu
This paper presents an approach for modeling weather and other environmental inputs
(ENIs) in the power flow and related tools with a focus on electric grid transmission planning …

Projections of standardised energy indices in future climate scenarios

E Dolores-Tesillos, N Otero… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Renewable energy is becoming an increasingly important component of energy systems.
However, renewable energy production is heavily dependent on the prevailing weather …

Improved Decarbonization Planning through Climate Resiliency Modeling

O Anderson, C Bracken, CD Burleyson, A Pusch… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
California has set ambitious decarbonization goals concerning both emissions and the
portion of energy generated by renewable resources. However, climate change poses …

Measuring the Dunkelflaute: How (not) to analyze variable renewable energy shortage

M Kittel, WP Schill - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06758, 2024 - arxiv.org
As variable renewable energy sources increasingly gain importance in global energy
systems, there is a growing interest in understanding periods of variable renewable energy …

Coping with the Dunkelflaute: Power system implications of variable renewable energy droughts in Europe

M Kittel, A Roth, WP Schill - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17683, 2024 - arxiv.org
Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to
as" Dunkelflaute", emerges as a key challenge for realizing a decarbonized European …