Document of bibliographic reference 369430

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

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AS

Title

Grid integration feasibility and investment planning of offshore wind power under carbon-neutral transition in China

Abstract

Offshore wind power, with accelerated declining levelized costs, is emerging as a critical building-block to fully decarbonize the world’s largest CO2 emitter, China. However, system integration barriers as well as system balancing costs have not been quantified yet. Here we develop a bottom-up model to test the grid accommodation capabilities and design the optimal investment plans for offshore wind power considering resource distributions, hourly power system simulations, and transmission/storage/hydrogen investments. Results indicate that grid integration barriers exist currently at the provincial level. For 2030, optimized offshore wind investment levels should be doubled compared with current government plans, and provincial allocations should be significantly improved considering both resource quality and grid conditions. For 2050, offshore wind capacity in China could reach as high as 1500 GW, prompting a paradigm shift in national transmission structure, favoring long-term storage in the energy portfolio, enabling green hydrogen production in coastal demand centers, resulting in the world’s largest wind power market.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000983415900010

Bibliographic citation

Guo, X.; Chen, X.; Chen, X.; Sherman, P.; Wen, J.; McElroy, M. (2023). Grid integration feasibility and investment planning of offshore wind power under carbon-neutral transition in China. Nature Comm. 14(1): 2447. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37536-3

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true

Access rights

open access

Is accessible for free

true