Energy-storage requirements reduced in coupled wind-solar generating systems
Abstract
A Monte Carlo computer model has simulated the operation of a system of combined solar and wind powered generators, using varying proportions of wind and solar power on different runs, to test whether the combination of the generators would result in a reduction in the needed capacity for energy storage. The basic data which results from each year's run of the model is the minimum energy-storage capacity needed to meet demand at all times during the year's operation. This will vary from run to run since random changes in sunlight intensity and wind velocity due to changes in the weather are superimposed on the diurnal and annual variations caused by the rotation and orbital motion of the earth.
- Publication:
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Solar Energy
- Pub Date:
- January 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0038-092X(76)90039-6
- Bibcode:
- 1976SoEn...18...73A
- Keywords:
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- Electric Energy Storage;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Solar Generators;
- Windpowered Generators;
- Annual Variations;
- Diurnal Variations;
- Statistical Distributions;
- Wind Velocity