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Green, Richard and Vasilakos, Nicholas 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-2885
(2012)
Storing wind for a rainy day: What type of electricity does Denmark Export?
The Energy Journal, 33 (3).
Abstract
Physical laws mean that it is generally impossible to identify which power stations are exporting to another country, but economic logic offers strong clues. On windy days, Denmark tends to export electricity to its neighbours, and to import power on calm days. Storing electricity in this way thus allows the country to deal with the intermittency of wind generation. We show that this kind of behaviour is theoretically optimal when a region with wind and thermal generation can trade with one based on hydro power. However, annual trends in Denmark's trade follow its output of thermal generation and are inversely related to Nordic production of hydro power and the amount of water available to Scandinavian generators, with no correlation with wind generation. We estimate the cost of volatility in Denmark's wind output to equal between 4% and 8% of its market value.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | electricity,hydro generation,international trade,storage,wind generation |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Julie Frith |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2012 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2023 23:37 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/37287 |
| DOI: | 10.5547/01956574.33.3.1 |
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