Fig. 6: Sensitivity of results to monthly variation in renewables production and long-term fuel price changes. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Sensitivity of results to monthly variation in renewables production and long-term fuel price changes.

From: Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain

Fig. 6

a Sensitivity of additional electricity costs during months with low (10th percentile), median and high (90th percentile) non-thermal renewables production. b Overall, these additional costs may be relatively small compared with the system costs and seasonal fluctuation. c Distribution of costs in alternative scenarios (right halves) compared to Baseline climate: low and high fuel costs; and near future (NF) and far future (FF) climate impacts; compared with the baseline (BS in grey/green). Boxplot notch is the median, the bar is the inter-quartile range (IQR), whiskers extend to 5th and 95th percentiles, dots are outside this range (a, b). Dashed lines show the median and inter-quartile ranges (c).

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