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Complementarity Assessment of South Greenland Katabatic Flows and West Europe Wind Regimes
Current global environmental challenges require vigorous and diverse actions
in the energy sector. One solution that has recently attracted interest
consists in harnessing high-quality variable renewable energy resources in
remote locations, while using transmission links to transport the power to end
users. In this context, a comparison of western European and Greenland wind
regimes is proposed. By leveraging a regional atmospheric model specifically
designed to accurately capture polar phenomena, local climatic features of
southern Greenland are identified to be particularly conducive to extensive
renewable electricity generation from wind. A methodology to assess how
connecting remote locations to major demand centres would benefit the latter
from a resource availability standpoint is introduced and applied to the
aforementioned Europe-Greenland case study, showing superior and complementary
wind generation potential in the considered region of Greenland with respect to
selected European sites.Comment: Published in Elsevier Energ