A review on the complementarity between grid-connected solar and wind power systems

Weschenfelder, F.; Leite, Gustavo de Novaes Pires; Costa, Ana Clara Santos; Vilela, Olga de Castro; Ribeiro, Claudio Moises; Ochoa, Álvaro; Araújo, Alex Maurício

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120617

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“…Due to the type of photovoltaic system, the way it is set up, the receiver of the energy produced, etc., photovoltaic farms can be defined as grid-connected, stationary, ground-mounted, commercial, profit-oriented from the sale of the produced electricity, commissioned, part of the technical infrastructure system of the area [27,28].…”

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Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

2021

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The abandonment of conventional sources in favor of energy from renewable energy sources (RES) has a global dimension, and the dynamic increase in the share of energy from photovoltaic systems in the energy mix of many countries results from the possibility of obtaining it both on a small scale (micro-installations) and as part of economic investments (photovoltaic power plants). The study aimed to assess the economic efficiency of 22 photovoltaic farms located in northeastern Poland. The research covered 5 solar power plants with a capacity of up to 799 kWp (I), 13 between 800 and 1100 kWp (II), and 4 installations of 1.98 MWp (III). The evaluation was based on net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period (PP), profitability index (PI), accounting rate of return (ARR). Additionally, a sensitivity analysis was carried out regarding the value of economic indicators. The analysis shows that all studied PV farms are economically justified investments (NPV > 0) regardless of the adopted scenario. Solar power plants of the largest analyzed capacity (group III) resulted in being the most profitable ones, but no linear relationship between the level of productivity and profitability was established. Due to the large variation in terrain shape in northeastern Poland, landscape value and social benefits, which are difficult to assess, the support system for investments regarding the construction of photovoltaic power plants proved to be the most effective in group I.

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Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

2021

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“…Additionally, correlation within a resource across space or correlation between wind and solar resources, represents a challenge to robust, continuous generation of electricity because a reduction in one resource would imply a simultaneous reduction in others (Shaner et al, 2018). Thus, the ability to transmit electricity over large geographic areas is advantageous not only because it is most economically efficient to site wind and solar farms at relatively remote locations where it is climatologically windiest and sunniest, but also because pooling resources over large areas reduces the correlation between and within resources, making the total energy supply less variable (Jurasz et al, 2020;Jurasz et al, 2021;Rinaldi et al, 2021;Solomon et al, 2020;Weschenfelder et al, 2020;Yan et al, 2020).…”

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Meteorology and Climatology of Historical Weekly Wind and Solar Power Resource Droughts over western North America in ERA5

Brown

Farnham

Caldeira

2021

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Wind and solar electricity generation is projected to expand substantially over the next several decades due both to rapid cost declines as well as regulation designed to achieve climate targets. With increasing reliance on wind and solar generation, future energy systems may be vulnerable to previously underappreciated synoptic-scale variations characterized by low wind and/or surface solar radiation. Here we use western North America as a case study region to investigate the historical meteorology of weekly-scale “droughts” in potential wind power, potential solar power and their compound occurrence. We also investigate the covariability between wind and solar droughts with potential stresses on energy demand due to temperature deviations away human comfort levels. We find that wind power drought weeks tend to occur in late summer and are characterized by a mid-level atmospheric ridge centered over British Columbia and high sea level pressure on the lee side of the Rockies. Solar power drought weeks tend to occur near winter solstice when the seasonal minimum in incoming solar radiation co-occurs with the tendency for mid-level troughs and low pressure systems over the U.S. southwest. Compound wind and solar power drought weeks consist of the aforementioned synoptic pattern associated with wind droughts occurring near winter solstice when the solar resource is at its seasonal minimum. We find that wind drought weeks are associated with high solar power (and vice versa) both seasonally and in terms of synoptic meteorology, which supports the notion that wind and solar power generation can play complementary roles in a diversified energy portfolio at synoptic spatiotemporal scales over Western North America.

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“…Using both the solar as well as wind energy can cause a complementarity behaviour by diminishing the variable and inherent characteristics. Solar and wind energies are eminent RES (renewable energy sources), and several countries are investing in RES and also certain studies have investigated in this topic, in such way study [34] utilized wind as well as solar power for the grid integration in large scale. The integrated usage of solar and wind power in several regions results in wellbalanced power supply that is critical for safety and operability of the electrical grids.…”

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“…Furthermore even for the short reaction handling case, the system would be translated to switching process of the devices thereby decreasing the lifetime. Apart from this the paper [34] found few unresolved topic and unexplored points which enhance the research regarding the solar and wind complementarity are incorporation of quality assured technique to prevent measurement error that interfere in the complementarity analysis, proper definition of reference metrics for allowing the comparison of various outputs from complementarity analysis. Further the climatic change impacts could directly affect the source complementarity [66].…”

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A Comprehensive Survey on the Impact of Renewable Energy Sources in Power System Operation and Control

Tatikayala¹,

Dixit²

2021

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The concern for huge increasing electricity demand, fossil fuel depletion, developed infrastructure reliability, carbon footprint reduction insisted the power utility companies to uptake RES (Renewable Energy Sources). The improved adoption of RES like wind energy and solar energy into the prevailing transmission and distribution networks led to several problems. These problems could be rectified by optimizing the power system parameters like frequency response, inertia, stability, battery usage, efficiency and power loss. This review hence provide a comprehensive analysis on the impact of renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy on power system operation and control in accordance with the major findings of the existing works. This review highlights the difficulties in the installation of solar and wind power with adoptable solutions. The challenges of power systems regarding the encoding of non-linearized function could be rectified by AI (Artificial Intelligence). The paper also insists the importance of artificial intelligence algorithm in the optimization of power system parameters. Artificial intelligence methods is useful for resolving various issues in power systems such as control, scheduling, forecasting etc. Few artificial algorithms such as Atom search optimization, Particle swarm optimization, Salp swarm optimization were investigated in this review for improving the performance of the power system. In spite of optimization analysis, the paper investigate various storage system types for improving the power system in accordance with cost, application and operation characteristics. Proper understanding of these systems is necessary for the future designing and hence through revision of state of art characteristics has been performed in this paper.

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A review on the complementarity between grid-connected solar and wind power systems

Cited by 123 publications

References 66 publications

Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

Meteorology and Climatology of Historical Weekly Wind and Solar Power Resource Droughts over western North America in ERA5

A Comprehensive Survey on the Impact of Renewable Energy Sources in Power System Operation and Control

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