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