Articles | Volume 65
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-65-159-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-65-159-2025
29 Jan 2025
 | 29 Jan 2025

Impact of climate change on high wind and solar optimal mixes and system costs: the case of France

Joan Delort Ylla, Alexis Tantet, and Philippe Drobinski

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Understanding how the electricity generation sector reacts to climate change while large shares of wind and solar energies are introduced is of crucial importance to ensure a clean, secure and affordable electricity provision. We find that in a best case scenario, if we account only for climate change impacts on the wind and solar resource coupled to the demand, then climate change tends to have no adverse economic impacts, while it becomes more interesting to invest in solar than wind energy.