The impact of complementarity on power supply reliability of small scale hybrid energy systems

Small scale hybrid power systems gain popularity around the world as a viable way of reducing power generation environmental impact, reducing energy cost and increasing power supply reliability. Hybrid systems which are based on variable renewable sources usually utilize the effect of resources temporal, and to a smaller extent, spatial complementarity. Although there is already an extensive body of literature investigating the concept of resources complementarity, they rarely addressed the impact of complementarity on the reliability of a given hybrid system. In this paper we simulate the operation of wind and solar hybrid energy system (with and without battery) for evenly distributed 86 locations in Poland over the period 2010–2016 based on 15 min’ time step data. We analyze the impact of resources complementarity (on various time scales: 15 min, hourly and monthly) on the system reliability. To remove the capacity factor (resources availability depends on location) on the results, we select the installed capacity in wind and solar sources in such a way that on an annual scale they generate evenly 50% of the observed demand (which is assumed to be constant = 1 kW).

• Autores: Jurasz, Jakub; Beluco, Alexandre; Canales Vega, Fausto Alfredo
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/3299
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/11323/3299; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Complementarity; Hybrid energy source; Photovoltaics; Reliability; Wind turbine; Complementariedad; Fuente de energia hibrida; Fotovoltaica; Confiabilidad; Turbina eólica
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International