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de La Beaumelle, Nils Angliviel (author), Blok, K. (author), de Chalendar, Jacques A. (author), Clarke, Leon (author), Hahmann, Andrea N. (author), Huster, Jonathan (author), Nemet, Gregory F. (author), Suri, Dhruv (author), Wild, Thomas B. (author), Azevedo, Inês M.L. (author)Renewable electricity generation will need to be rapidly scaled to address climate change and other environmental challenges. Doing so effectively will require an understanding of resource availability. We review estimates for renewable electricity of the global technical potential, defined as the amount of electricity that could be produced...review 2023
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McKenna, Russell (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author), Heinrichs, Heidi (author), Schmidt, Johannes (author), Staffell, Iain (author), Bauer, Christian (author), Gruber, Katharina (author), Hahmann, Andrea N. (author), Jansen, Malte (author), Klingler, Michael (author), Landwehr, Natascha (author), Larsén, Xiaoli Guo (author), Lilliestam, Johan (author), Pickering, Bryn (author), Robinius, Martin (author), Tröndle, Tim (author), Turkovska, Olga (author), Wehrle, Sebastian (author), Weinand, Jann Michael (author), Wohland, Jan (author)The rapid uptake of renewable energy technologies in recent decades has increased the demand of energy researchers, policymakers and energy planners for reliable data on the spatial distribution of their costs and potentials. For onshore wind energy this has resulted in an active research field devoted to analysing these resources for regions...review 2022