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Daily solar and wind energy load scenarios for Sweden

Sweden solar wind combination
Figure 4.1 Energy surplus in Sweden for different solar and wind energy mixes.

Sweden constant load
Figure 4.2 Energy surplus in Sweden for different solar and wind energy mixes under a constant load and assuming ideal daily energy storage.

Sweden heating load
Figure 4.3 Energy surplus in Sweden for different solar and wind energy mixes under a heating load and assuming ideal daily energy storage.

Sweden low heating load
Figure 4.4 Energy surplus in Sweden for different solar and wind energy mixes under a small heating load and assuming ideal daily energy storage.

Sweden cooling load
Figure 4.5 Energy surplus in Sweden for different solar and wind energy mixes under a cooling load and assuming ideal daily energy storage.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to the Renewables.ninja team for open access to the v1.1 data-set of Europe, covering 1980-2016 data for weather, solar and wind on a country basis. Website: www.renewables.ninja. Version 1.1 of the original data-set is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. In this work, hourly data is post-processing into yearly, monthly and daily statistics - and visualized using boxplots.

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