3.6.1 Optional further learning material for Climate-neutral electricity: the pivotal role of renewables

Course subject(s) 3. Climate-neutral electricity: the pivotal role of renewables

If you would like to learn more about some of the topics introduced in this weeks material, please look at some of the following links.

Video 3.2

The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory has an online LCOE calculator with some documentation explaining the calculations. The calculation used in the lecture is based on this approach.

Some resources that gather the cost of renewables and their historical development include:

Video 3.3

You can use our interactive web application, Renewables.ninja, to explore the variability of solar and wind electricity generation anywhere in the world

Some additional literature:

Video 3.4

  • study estimating the renewable resource across Europe and pairing it with electricity demand estimates to see if regions can be electricity self-sufficient (Tröndle et al., 2019)

Video 3.5

On the topic of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the electricity sector:

Some different views on the topic of nuclear energy:

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