Ensuring Fully Renewable Baltic Power System
2023 IEEE 64th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON 2023) 2023
Antans Sauļus Sauhats, Romāns Petričenko, Marija Zima-Bockarjova

The production of a synthetic methane from hydrogen and carbon dioxide using renewable electricity enables long-term energy storage, provides clean fuels for electricity generation and thermal energy and can help power systems transition to climate changes mitigation and large-scale renewable energy deployment. This paper evaluates the economic performance of synthetic methane production, which is especially prospective in the Baltic region, because allow utilize the existing gas infrastructure, that includes a gas pipeline transmission and distribution network, gas power plants and a large underground reservoir. We use power systems optimization model, which include sub-models of renewables power sources and interconnections with Scandinavia and Poland considering NORDPOOL electricity market rules. The assessment of gas amount and costs, required capacity of plant for energy balancing, scale of necessary investments constitutes the main outcomes of this paper. Conclusions are on the interests of high-level energy transition planners and decision makers.


Keywords
energy storage; electricity market; hydrogen and methane production; renewables; climate change mitigation.
DOI
10.1109/RTUCON60080.2023.10413012
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10413012

Sauhats, A., Petričenko, R., Zima-Bockarjova, M. Ensuring Fully Renewable Baltic Power System. In: 2023 IEEE 64th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON 2023), Latvia, Riga, 9-11 October, 2023. Piscataway: IEEE, 2023, pp.1-9. ISBN 979-8-3503-1774-9. e-ISBN 979-8-3503-1773-2. Available from: doi:10.1109/RTUCON60080.2023.10413012

Publication language
English (en)
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