Prospective energy security scenarios in Spain: The future role of renewable power generation technologies and climate change implications

Diego García-Gusano, Diego Iribarren*

*Autor correspondiente de este trabajo

Producción científica: Contribución a una revistaArtículorevisión exhaustiva

32 Citas (Scopus)

Resumen

Energy security is a complex issue that arises as one of the main concerns for most of the countries when regarding the future. In this sense, given the acknowledged lack of future-oriented studies in this field, this article performs a prospective analysis of the energy security of a national energy system. This is done through a novel methodological framework combining Life Cycle Assessment and Energy Systems Modelling. In particular, the recently proposed Renewable Energy Security Index (RESI) is endogenously integrated into a national power generation model in order to prospectively evaluate the energy security of the Spanish electricity production mix. This facilitates the exploration of alternative energy security scenarios based on RESI targets and focused on the penetration of renewables. The results show that, despite the relatively high renewable contribution reached in a business-as-usual scenario, a significantly higher and faster renewable penetration is attained when implementing RESI targets of 70%, 80% and 90% by 2030 in Spain. This is found to be associated with a large deployment of (onshore and offshore) wind power generation technology. Finally, a favourable life-cycle climate change performance is found when pursuing ambitious energy security targets.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)202-209
Número de páginas8
PublicaciónRenewable Energy
Volumen126
DOI
EstadoPublicada - oct 2018

Huella

Profundice en los temas de investigación de 'Prospective energy security scenarios in Spain: The future role of renewable power generation technologies and climate change implications'. En conjunto forman una huella única.

Citar esto