Publications de Stuart John Bartlett

Charting the course: A possible route to a fully renewable Swiss power system

Michael Lehning, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Albertus Christiaan Kruyt, Annelen Kahl, Stuart John Bartlett

The prospect of a renewable transition seems plausible for many countries, but can be shrouded in risks, costs and challenges. This paper illuminates a path for such a transition with a numerical investigation, aimed at resolving the power dynamics of a co ...

2018

Interplay between photovoltaic, wind energy and storage hydropower in a fully renewable Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Annelen Kahl, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Albertus Christiaan Kruyt, Stuart John Bartlett

As part of its ambitious long term energy strategy, Switzerland plans to phase out nuclear power production and replace most or all of its significant share of national electricity production (40%) by renewables, in particular by photovoltaics (PV) and win ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Large Scale Deployment of PV Units in Existing Distribution Networks: Optimization of the Installation Layout

Mario Paolone, Michael Lehning, Fabrizio Sossan, Annelen Kahl, Stuart John Bartlett, Jana Darulová

In fixed PV installations, the azimuth and tilt of the panels are normally chosen with the objective of maximizing the plant capacity factor. In this paper, we show that when considering distribution networks with densely clustered PV plants, there exist i ...

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy2016

Risks and Reliability in a Fully Renewable Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Annelen Kahl, Stuart John Bartlett, Albertus Christiaan Kruyt

In Switzerland, the government has made ambitious plans for a major energy transition. There is a planned phase out of nuclear facilities by mid-century, their capacity replaced by an expansion of hydroelectric infrastructure, new geothermal installations, ...

2015