A spatiotemporal atlas of hydropower in Africa for energy modelling purposes.
Africa
Hydropower
decarbonization
energy modelling
renewables
resource profiles
Journal
Open research Europe
ISSN: 2732-5121
Titre abrégé: Open Res Eur
Pays: Belgium
ID NLM: 9918230081006676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
accepted:
23
03
2022
medline:
29
3
2022
pubmed:
29
3
2022
entrez:
30
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The modelling of electricity systems with substantial shares of renewable resources, such as solar power, wind power and hydropower, requires datasets on renewable resource profiles with high spatiotemporal resolution to be made available to the energy modelling community. Whereas such resources exist for solar power and wind power profiles on diurnal and seasonal scales across all continents, this is not yet the case for hydropower. Here, we present a newly developed open-access African hydropower atlas, containing seasonal hydropower generation profiles for nearly all existing and several hundred future hydropower plants on the African continent. The atlas builds on continental-scale hydrological modelling in combination with detailed technical databases of hydropower plant characteristics and can facilitate modelling of power systems across Africa.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37645122
doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13392.3
pmc: PMC10445926
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
29Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2022 Sterl S et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
No competing interests were disclosed.
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