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ERA5 derived time series of European country-aggregate electricity demand, wind power generation and solar power generation

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The ERA5 reanalysis data (1979-2018) has been used to calculate the three-hourly country aggregated wind and solar power generation for 28 European countries based on a distribution of wind and solar farms which is considered to be representative of the current situation (2017). In addition a corresponding daily time series of nationally aggregated electricity demand is provided. The datasets have been produced to investigate the inter-annual variability of the three weather-dependent power system components.

** This is an update on the previous version of the data where there were issues with the timestamps in the 3-hourly wind and solar power data. **

Resource Type: Dataset
Creators: Bloomfield, Hannah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5616-1503, Brayshaw, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-4362 and Charlton-Perez, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6220
Rights-holders: University of Reading
Data Publisher: University of Reading
Publication Year: 2020
Data last accessed: 15 November 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.273
Metadata Record URL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/273
Organisational units: Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > NCAS
Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Participating Organisations: University of Reading
Keywords: electricity demand, wind power generation, solar power generation
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Data Availability: OPEN

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