policy-relevant scenarios for 2022, 2032 and 2050. We also determine the storage capacities required for taking up renewable … surpluses is substantially larger. Using an optimization model, we find that no additional storage is required in the scenarios …-dispatchable renewables would render storage investments largely obsolete under the assumption of a flexible system. In contrast, further …

understand the effects of investment in storage, and the effects of the interaction between storage and additional … interconnection. Our results show that both investments in interconnection and storage reduce wholesale electricity prices in France … revenues in the scenarios without storage. When storage is included in the system, the new interconnector becomes less …