Supplementary Data: The role of hydro power, storage and transmission in the decarbonization of the Chinese power system

This is the supplementary data to the publication:

The role of hydro power, storage and transmission in the decarbonization of the Chinese power system

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.02.009

This dataset includes:

• Hourly wind, solar and electricity load time series for 31 Chinese provinces and their calculations
• Reservoir hydro stations' effective capacity and inflow time series (details are referred to Daily hydro power time series (1979-2016) for 43 Chinese reservoir hydro stations)
• Wind and solar power's geographical potential calculations
• Directory p_nom_min contains existing wind and solar power capacities up to end of 2014
• Long-range transmission topologies

The bash command scripts initiate three sets of simulations respectively: CO2 emission reduction sweep; 38-year weather input sensitivity; constraining transmission volume.

Dependencies:

• Pypsa
• vresutils
• RE-atlas(optional)