Benefits of Colocating Concentrating Solar Power and Wind

Sioshansi, Ramteen; Denholm, Paul

doi:10.1109/TSTE.2013.2253619

Title: Benefits of Colocating Concentrating Solar Power and Wind

Abstract

Here, we analyze the potential benefits of colocating wind and concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in the southwestern U.S. Using a location in western Texas as a case study, we demonstrate that such a deployment strategy can improve the capacity factor of the combined plant and the associated transmission investment. This is because of two synergies between wind and CSP: 1) the negative correlation between real-time wind and solar resource availability and 2) the use of low-cost high-efficiency thermal energy storage in CSP. The economic tradeoff between transmission and system performance is highly sensitive to CSP and transmission costs. Finally, we demonstrate that a number of deployment configurations, which include up to 67% CSP, yield a positive net return on investment.

Authors:

Sioshansi, Ramteen ^[1]; Denholm, Paul ^[2]

The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Integrated Systems Engineering Dept.
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Strategic Energy Analysis Center

Publication Date:: Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2013

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1355780

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308; AGG-0-40365-01

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1949-3029

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; wind; Concentrating solar power (CSP); thermal energy storage; transmission; Hybrid power systems; Solar energy; Energy storage; Wind power generation

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  title        = {Benefits of Colocating Concentrating Solar Power and Wind},

  author       = {Sioshansi, Ramteen and Denholm, Paul},

  abstractNote = {Here, we analyze the potential benefits of colocating wind and concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in the southwestern U.S. Using a location in western Texas as a case study, we demonstrate that such a deployment strategy can improve the capacity factor of the combined plant and the associated transmission investment. This is because of two synergies between wind and CSP: 1) the negative correlation between real-time wind and solar resource availability and 2) the use of low-cost high-efficiency thermal energy storage in CSP. The economic tradeoff between transmission and system performance is highly sensitive to CSP and transmission costs. Finally, we demonstrate that a number of deployment configurations, which include up to 67% CSP, yield a positive net return on investment.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TSTE.2013.2253619},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy},

  number       = 4,

  volume       = 4,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2013},

  month        = {Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2013}

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