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Integrating solar plants into the European power grid − What is the optimal capacity combination of PV and battery storage?Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2025 - scholarly articlesPublished: 30 of April, 2025

The European Union’s FIT-for-55 and RePower EU policies set forth highly ambitious targets for the deployment of variable renewables. As a result, there will be a significant increase in PV capacity in the short term up to 2030, which will require ...

Policy relevant lessons from research on renewable energy auctionsEnergy Policy 2025, volume 203 - scholarly articlesPublished: 22 of April, 2025

Renewable energy auctions have emerged globally as a primary tool for promoting electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) by awarding operational support to projects that bid the lowest level of required support. While their widespread adoption ...

Outlook for RES integration in Visegrad countriesworking papersPublished: 15 of January, 2024

Solar installations have been booming in Hungary and Poland in recent years and all Visegrad group countries are anticipating significant growth in variable renewable energy capacity by 2030, introducing the challenge and opportunity of surplus ...

Measuring the benefits of cross-border renewable auctions in Central and Eastern Europe — The theoretical case of HungaryEnergy Reports 2023 - scholarly articlesPublished: 25 of April, 2023

Economic theory suggests that significant benefits can be realized, if two or more countries integrate their renewable support schemes and capitalize on the lowest cost renewable energy projects in merged markets. Hungary is one of the Central and ...

Mapping of affordability levels for photovoltaic-based electricity generation in Africa, East AsiaScientific Report - scholarly articlesPublished: 5 of February, 2021

The article shows that, compared with diesel-powered electricity generation systems, solar photovoltaic systems are more affordable to no less than 36% of the unelectrified populations in East Asia, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Available at the ...

Coexistence of nuclear and renewables in the V4 electricity system: Friends or enemies?scholarly articlesPublished: 31 of March, 2020

The paper examines the interactions between nuclear and variable renewable generation capacities (vRES) under various assumptions in the broader V4 region. Four exploratory scenarios are analysed with high and low penetration levels of vRES and nuclear ...

Renewable energy use in Hungary – The benefit of latecomers?Budapest Management Review - scholarly articlesPublished: 28 of November, 2019

In Hungary, renewable energy consumption is predominantly biomass in the form of firewood for household heating. This stock has allowed the country to remain on track with its renewable target for the last fifteen years despite avoiding the promotion of ...

The Southeast European power system in 2030 - Flexibility challenges and benefits from regional integrationAgora Energiawende publication - working papersPublished: 26 of June, 2019

This report takes a deeper look at the future of regional market integration for power systems with high shares of wind and solar in Southeast Europe (SEE). Because these technologies vary in output depending on the weather, they bring an increasedneed ...

Case study report on governance barriers to energy transition - Country report for HUNGARYENABLE research project deliverable (D5.2) - working papersPublished: 10 of October, 2018

The country study was prepared in the frame of the ENABLE. EU research project with the aim to explore national legislative, regulatory and financial bottlenecks to the implementation of low carbon energy systems, focusing on the areas of a) wind, solar ...