Hydropower revenues under the threat of climate change in Brazil
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This work analyzes the impacts of climate change in the revenues
of hydropower plants. One important input for designing and evaluating investment
opportunities in hydropower is the water inflows historical data. Unfortunately, the
use of such information alone may not project well the future power generation due
to the influence of climate change in the water inflow patterns. This paper introduces
spatio-temporal information of the future climate into the operational planning of
the Brazilian hydropower system. Global climate models from IPCC are considered along
with downscaled regional climate models. Our results at the individual hydro plant
level show the importance of taking into account climate change information when performing
hydro generation planning studies.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18148Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1016/j.renene.2018.10.050Publication Info
(2019). Hydropower revenues under the threat of climate change in Brazil. Renewable Energy, 133. pp. 873-882. 10.1016/j.renene.2018.10.050. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18148.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Luana Marangon Lima
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy
My research and teaching focus on optimization methods and data analytics applied
to financial and operational aspects in the energy industry more specifically electricity
markets, power generation planning and scheduling, transmission and distribution regulation
and renewable energy integration.
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