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CSS/Italy

Italian Chapter of Complex Systems Society

Renewable energy sources

November 11, 2018 research

Portfolio analysis and geographical allocation of renewable sources: A stochastic approach

Antonio Scala, Angelo Facchini, Umberto Perna, Riccardo Basosi

Published in Energy Policy, 125 (2019), 154-159

We take inspiration from the Modern Portfolio Theory introduced by Markowitz to propose a simplified strategy for the portfolio management of renewable energy sources based on Gaussian fluctuations with tunable correlations.

By analysing the impact of production fluctuations, we show how – depending on the sources’ temporal correlation patterns – a careful geographical allocation of different types of renewal energy sources can reduce both the energy needs for balancing the power system and its uncertainty. The proposed strategy can be easilyintegrated in a decision support system for the planning of renewable energy sources. Therefore, providing  policy/decision makers with an additional tool. We test our strategy on a set of case studies including a real-case based on literature data for solar and wind sources, and discuss how to extend the computation to non-Gaussian sources.

The paper shows that in the Markowitz framework an efficient trade-off between production and  fluctuations can be easily achieved, and that such framework also leads to important considerations on energy security. In perspective, analysis of time series together with such enriched frameworks would allow for the analysis of multiple realistic renewable generation scenarios helping decisions on the optimal size and spatial allocation of future energy storage facilities.

 

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