The levelized cost of electricity is the most common indicator used to compare the cost competitiveness of electricity-generating technologies. Several studies claim that some renewable energy technologies, particularly utility-scale solar photovoltaic and onshore wind, are cost-competitive with fossil fuel–based technologies. However, there is no consensus on this point considering the wide variations in factors that influence the levelized costs of electricity across countries and technologies. This study calculates more than 4,000 levelized costs of electricity for 11 technologies, varying key input variables. The study shows that the levelized costs of electricity for renewable electricity technologies, except concentrated solar and offshore...
This report provides a brief overview of the role of energy storage against the background of current trends in power systems with a particular emphasis on developing countries. It introduces the different ways in which storage can help meet policy objectives and overcome technical challenges in the power sector, it provides guidance on how to determine the value of storage solutions from a system perspective, and discusses relevant aspects of policy, market and regulatory frameworks to facilitate storage deployment. The document is intended to highlight relevant issues, provide guidance to policymakers and regulators in this relatively new area and identify...
Online 4-week self-paced course on decarbonization measures in the building and transport sectors. Learn about trends in energy usage, carbon intensity, and potential of available alternatives to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The course can be accessed via DelftX: Designing Climate-Neutral Buildings and Transport The course is offered by Delft through the edX platform.
11-week online for public transport utilities and practitioners with detailed information on how to implement future ready e-bus projects with the latest digitation tools and services at the planning & procurement, operations monitoring & management and project performance evaluation stages, and experience with the operators. The course can be accessed via Digitalizing E-Bus Projects. The course is offered by TUMI (Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative), who is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in collaboration with all TUMI partners.
Keywords: small island developing states, Rewnewable Energy, Climate Change, Adaptation
Each November, the spotlight is placed on sustainable energy where there are significant efforts to raise awareness of what is occurring within the sector and increase general knowledge on the key issues that are applicable to the region. This year, the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) and partners have come together on a range of activities at the regional level. There are also activities at the national levels that are being supported by the regional partners. This year's theme: "RE-imagining Resilience: Energy at the Centre of our Lives”
The recent advances in battery technology and reductions in battery costs have brought battery energy storage systems (BESS) to the point of becoming increasingly cost-effective projects to serve a range of power sector interventions, especially when combined with PV and where diesel is the alternative, or where subsidies or incentives are used. Quantifying the economic impact of BESS requires a high level of temporal granularity in the analysis, because the time-steps required for a reliable assessment of costs and benefits are much shorter than the usual annual time steps of many power sector investment projects. In short, there is as...
This two minute animation brief a brief overview of how you can optimise your electric vehicle experience.
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