Datasets
SECURES-Met contains temperature (2m), radiation, wind power potential, and hydropower potential and is available in a tabular csv format for the historical period (1981-2020, Hydro only until 2010) created from ERA5 and ERA5-Land and two future emission scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, both 1951-2100, wind power starting from 1981, hydro power from 1971) created from one CMIP5 EUROCORDEX model (GCM: ICHEC-EC-EARTH, RCM: KNMI-RACMO22E, ensemble run: r12i1p1).
Citation: Herbert Formayer, Philipp Maier, Imran Nadeem, David Leidinger, Fabian Lehner, Franziska Schöniger, Gustav Resch, Demet Suna, Peter Widhalm, Nicolas Pardo-Garcia, Florian Hasengst, & Gerhard Totschnig. (2023). SECURES-Met - A European wide meteorological data set suitable for electricity modelling (supply and demand) for historical climate and climate change projections (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7907883.
The open-access dataset SECURES-Energy contains all relevant electricity demand and supply components for the EU and several additional European countries in hourly resolution covering the period 1981-2100. It is based on reanalysis data ERA5(-Land) for the historical period and two EURO-CORDEX emission scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). On the generation side, impacts on onshore and offshore wind power generation, solar PV generation, and hydropower generation (run-of-river and reservoirs) – which is often missing in comparable datasets – are provided. On the demand side, all demand components relevant to future electricity systems including e-heating, e-cooling, e-mobility, and electricity demand in industry, are provided.
Citation: Schöniger, F., Resch, G., Suna, D., Widhalm, P., Totschnig, G., Pardo-Garcia, N., Hasengst, F., Formayer, H., Maier, P., & Leidinger, D. (2024). SECURES-Energy: Hourly electricity demand and supply profiles for historical climate and climate change projections in Europe until 2100 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14615500.
SECURES-Met - data manipulation routines
Software scripts required to generate the SECURES-Met dataset, divided into different use cases.
Citation: Herbert Formayer, David Leidinger, Imran Nadeem, Philipp Maier, & Fabian Lehner. (2023). SECURES-Met - data manipulation routines (1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8108927
Publications
Demet Suna, Gustav Resch, Franziska Schöniger, Florian Hasengst, Nicolas Pardo-Garcia, Gerhard Totschnig, Peter Widhalm, Herbert Formayer, Philipp Maier, David Leidinger, Imran Nadeem: Securing Austria’s Electricity Supply in Times of Climate Change. Published in Publication “Climate.Changes.Security. - 2nd updated Edition - Navigating Climate Change and Security Challenges in the OSCE Region. ISBN: 978-3-903359-76-5, June 2024” https://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/book_climate_11_securing_austrias_electricity_supply.pdf
Formayer, H. & Maier, P.: Behind the Paper: On the role of resolution and population weighting on temperature indicators in mountainous regions in our SECURES-Met dataset. https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/on-the-role-of-resolution-and-population-weighting-on-temperature-indicators-in-mountainous-regions-in-our-secures-met-data-set?channel_id=behind-the-paper
- Formayer, H., Nadeem, I., Leidinger, D. et al. SECURES-Met: A European meteorological data set suitable for electricity modelling applications. Sci Data 10, 590 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02494-4