Load and renewable generation time series for selected regions in Africa and Eurasia

The data set consist of three groups of yearly time series for 2003-2012 used in grid modelling. All time series are presented in .csv format. The data covers wind and PV power generation and load of 12 regions. The regions have 2 letter identifier and include the following:

EU - EU countries

NA - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

WA - Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria

EA - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

SA - South Africa

RU - European part of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine

MS - Arabic countries, Israel, Turkey

IP - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

SB - Asian part of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

IC - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

CN - China

FE - South Korea, Japan

Wind power time series are derived from MERRA wind speed data for Enercon E-126 wind turbine.

PV power time series are derived from MERRA solar surface irradiance data.

Load time series are generated with the periodical function.

Data for EU was derived within the project RESTORE 2050 as described in

Kies, A., Chattopadhyay, K., von Bremen, L., Lorenz, E., & Heinemann, D. (2016). Simulation of renewable feed-in for power system studies.

Data for all other nodes was derived as described in

Krutova, M. et al., The smoothing effect for renewable resources in an Afro-Eurasian power grid, Adv. Sci. Res., 2017

Load for EU is obtained from ENTSO-E and is not included in this data set.