Embedded storage capacity in South Africa has rapidly increased between 2022 and 2024 as residential consumers and telecommunication companies installed storage to mitigate the impact of frequent interruptions to the electricity supply. These interruptions, caused by unreliable generation...

Wind turbine output heavily depends on the wind speed at the deployment site. Energy system optimization models (ESOMs) typically allocate turbines in a cost-optimal manner, leading to siting at the windiest locations. However, such allocation methods lack an empirical base and risk...

The UK government's plans to decarbonise residential heating will mean major changes to the energy system whatever the specific technology pathway chosen, driving a range of impacts on users and suppliers. We use an energy system model (UK TIMES) to identify the potential energy system impacts...

With the European Green Deal, the European Union (EU27) aims to achieve an ambitious decarbonization of its electricity supply, while actively involving its citizens. Scenarios from energy and electricity sector models seek to inform this transition, although it is unclear to what extent these...

Energy scenarios should ideally account for societal feasibility and hence they could be informed by surveys on citizens’ preferences. This study surveyed consensus among citizens of France (N = 202), Germany (N = 199), and Poland (N = 200) on their national and EU electricity supply for 2035,...

Introduction -- Fundamentals of Energy and Power Systems -- Energy Demand -- Electricity Generation and Operational Planning -- Electricity Transport and Storage -- Regulation: Grids and Environment -- Simple Electricity Market Equilibrium Models -- Markets: Organisation, Trading and Efficiency...