Abstract
Because solar power is a rapidly growing component of the electricity system, robust representations of solar technologies should be included in capacity-expansion models. This is a challenge because modeling the electricity system--and, in particular, modeling solar integration within that system--is a complex endeavor. This report highlights the major challenges of incorporating solar technologies into capacity-expansion models and shows examples of how specific models address those challenges. These challenges include modeling non-dispatchable technologies, determining which solar technologies to model, choosing a spatial resolution, incorporating a solar resource assessment, and accounting for solar generation variability and uncertainty.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 50 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-6A20-61185
Keywords
- capacity expansion
- electricity
- literature review
- model
- solar