Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3: End-Use Electricity Demand
Abstract
The Renewable Electricity Futures (RE Futures) Study investigated the challenges and impacts of achieving very high renewable electricity generation levels in the contiguous United States by 2050. The analysis focused on the sufficiency of the geographically diverse U.S. renewable resources to meet electricity demand over future decades, the hourly operational characteristics of the U.S. gridwith high levels of variable wind and solar generation, and the potential implications of deploying high levels of renewables in the future. RE Futures focused on technical aspects of high penetration of renewable electricity; it did not focus on how to achieve such a future through policy or other measures. Given the inherent uncertainties involved with analyzing alternative long-term energyfutures as well as the multiple pathways that might be taken to achieve higher levels of renewable electricity supply, RE Futures explored a range of scenarios to investigate and compare the impacts of renewable electricity penetration levels (30%-90%), future technology performance improvements, potential constraints to renewable electricity development, and future electricity demand growthassumptions. RE Futures was led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1046904
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/TP-6A20-52409-3
TRN: US201215%%674
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: (Volume 3 of 4)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; AVAILABILITY; ELECTRICITY; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; PERFORMANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; renewable electricity; RE Futures; high renewable; generation; high penetration; United States; grid integration; scenario analysis
Citation Formats
Hostick, D, Belzer, D B, Hadley, S W, Markel, T, Marnay, C, and Kintner-Meyer, M. Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3: End-Use Electricity Demand. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.2172/1046904.
Hostick, D, Belzer, D B, Hadley, S W, Markel, T, Marnay, C, & Kintner-Meyer, M. Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3: End-Use Electricity Demand. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1046904
Hostick, D, Belzer, D B, Hadley, S W, Markel, T, Marnay, C, and Kintner-Meyer, M. Fri .
"Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3: End-Use Electricity Demand". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1046904. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1046904.
@article{osti_1046904,
title = {Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3: End-Use Electricity Demand},
author = {Hostick, D and Belzer, D B and Hadley, S W and Markel, T and Marnay, C and Kintner-Meyer, M},
abstractNote = {The Renewable Electricity Futures (RE Futures) Study investigated the challenges and impacts of achieving very high renewable electricity generation levels in the contiguous United States by 2050. The analysis focused on the sufficiency of the geographically diverse U.S. renewable resources to meet electricity demand over future decades, the hourly operational characteristics of the U.S. gridwith high levels of variable wind and solar generation, and the potential implications of deploying high levels of renewables in the future. RE Futures focused on technical aspects of high penetration of renewable electricity; it did not focus on how to achieve such a future through policy or other measures. Given the inherent uncertainties involved with analyzing alternative long-term energyfutures as well as the multiple pathways that might be taken to achieve higher levels of renewable electricity supply, RE Futures explored a range of scenarios to investigate and compare the impacts of renewable electricity penetration levels (30%-90%), future technology performance improvements, potential constraints to renewable electricity development, and future electricity demand growthassumptions. RE Futures was led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).},
doi = {10.2172/1046904},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1046904},
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