the United Kingdom - degree day, solar and wind energy statistics

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Daily solar and wind energy load scenarios for the United Kingdom

the United Kingdom solar wind combination

Figure 4.1 Energy surplus in the United Kingdom for different solar and wind energy mixes.

the United Kingdom constant load

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

the United Kingdom heating load

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

the United Kingdom low heating load

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

the United Kingdom cooling load

Figure 4.5 Energy surplus in the United Kingdom 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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