Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity
In 2010, nuclear power accounted for 27% of electricity production in Japan. The March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power station resulted in the closure of all of Japan’s nuclear power plants and it remains an open question as to how many will reopen. Even before the loss of nuclear capac...
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| description | In 2010, nuclear power accounted for 27% of electricity production in Japan. The March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power station resulted in the closure of all of Japan’s nuclear power plants and it remains an open question as to how many will reopen. Even before the loss of nuclear capacity, there were efforts in Japan to foster the use of renewable energy, including large scale solar power. Nuclear power plants in Japan provided more than just base-load by storing energy in large scale pumped hydroelectric storage systems, which was then released to provide some peaking capacity. If this storage were instead coupled to current generation rooftop solar systems in Tokyo, the combined system could help to meet peak requirements while at the same time providing ∼26.5% of the electricity Tokyo used to get from nuclear output, and do so 91% of the time. Data from a study of rooftop space and a 34 yr data set of average daily irradiance in the Tokyo metropolitan area were used. Using pumped hydroelectric storage with 5.6 times this rooftop area could completely provide for TEPCO’s nuclear capacity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac078eb960e447bcb96e093551892f002023-08-09T14:20:57ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262013-01-018101404210.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014042Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacityB L Stoll0T A Smith1M R Deinert2Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin , USAIn 2010, nuclear power accounted for 27% of electricity production in Japan. The March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power station resulted in the closure of all of Japan’s nuclear power plants and it remains an open question as to how many will reopen. Even before the loss of nuclear capacity, there were efforts in Japan to foster the use of renewable energy, including large scale solar power. Nuclear power plants in Japan provided more than just base-load by storing energy in large scale pumped hydroelectric storage systems, which was then released to provide some peaking capacity. If this storage were instead coupled to current generation rooftop solar systems in Tokyo, the combined system could help to meet peak requirements while at the same time providing ∼26.5% of the electricity Tokyo used to get from nuclear output, and do so 91% of the time. Data from a study of rooftop space and a 34 yr data set of average daily irradiance in the Tokyo metropolitan area were used. Using pumped hydroelectric storage with 5.6 times this rooftop area could completely provide for TEPCO’s nuclear capacity.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014042N88.40.fcN88.40.-jN88.40.M- |
| spellingShingle | B L Stoll T A Smith M R Deinert Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity Environmental Research Letters N 88.40.fc N 88.40.-j N 88.40.M- |
| title | Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| title_full | Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| title_fullStr | Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| title_short | Potential for rooftop photovoltaics in Tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| title_sort | potential for rooftop photovoltaics in tokyo to replace nuclear capacity |
| topic | N 88.40.fc N 88.40.-j N 88.40.M- |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014042 |
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