Spatial and Temporal Modelling of Renewable Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

This topical collection addresses the spatial and temporal modelling of renewable energy systems, both in a prospective as well as in a retrospective manner. Therefore, contributions that model the characteristics of future renewable energy systems are equally welcome as contributions which assess the characteristics of the past performance and characteristics of renewable energies. Papers may reach purely climate-based assessments of simulated renewable generation time series to full energy system models used to better understand energy systems with high shares of renewables. 

Studies may, for instance 

• Improve our understanding of how climate data can be used to model renewables
• Show the spatial and temporal variability of renewable energy sources
• Assess the complementarity of different renewable energy sources or locations
• Derive land availability scenarios for renewable energies, based on climatic, technical, economic, or social criteria
• Assess past spatial deployment patterns of renewables
• Assess past impacts on land cover and land use change, including impacts on biodiversity and other environmental indicators
• Derive integrated scenarios of energy systems with high shares of renewables (including systems from the local scale e.g. in the form of local energy communities on the national or continental scale).

The objective of the topical collection is to keep track of recent advances in the field of renewable energy system models. Our focus is on full papers of presentations made at the European Geoscience Union at the Session ‘Spatial and temporal modelling of renewable energy systems’ of the Division on Energy, Resources and the Environment, but we are not limited to them. We welcome papers from the global scientific community dedicated to climatic and technical issues, policy-making, forecasting and real-time applications concerning renewable energy systems.

Dr. Luis Ramirez Camargo
Dr. Johannes Schmidt
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dorner
Collection Editors

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