Explainers

This section provides short summaries of my publications

• Wind-solar complementarities: how combining wind and solar resources across countries can optimize the trade-off between obtaining the maximum possible capacity factor with the minimum possible variability at hourly, daily and monthly timescales.

• Global grid: interhemispheric trade in electricity would solve solar energy's diurnal cycle (East-West) and seasonality (North-South), in which case photovoltaics would become the cheapest source of electricity.

• Curtailment: how increasing shares of wind and solar increase the amount of excess electricity and how much this waste costs.

• ESG stock returns: do equity portfolios composed of high ESG equities perform (in terms of risk and return) better or worse than those composed of lower ESG ones?

• Cannibalization: conceptual description of the merit-order and cannibalization effects and quantification for the California wholesale electricity market.

• Photovoltaic self-consumption profitability: analysis of two Spanish PVSC regulations: the former one that prevented PVSC profitability, and the current one that enhances it.