A review on the complementarity of renewable energy sources:
In Section 4 we analyze and describe the various metrics used to assess the complementarity.
A progressive approach based on three coefficients is used to quantitatively assess the complementarity of wind and solar energy resources. Capacity factors of wind and solar power are obtained through virtual energy system models. J. Appl. Meteorol.
A correlation matrix was created for the 13 plants considered in the case study. Paper evaluates the balancing potential of a solar and wind power based supergrid covering Eurasia and Africa. Based on the index created by (Beluco et al., 2008), the method allows the calculation of complementarity between more than two sources.
Constraints on solar PV and wind turbine deployment due to land use and slope are based on the study of Wang et al. 4. Hourly data on surface solar radiation, surface air temperature, and wind speed at 100 m above the ground level are acquired from the ERA5 reanalysis 50, which has a spatial resolution of 0.25°.
Fig. 9 shows an example of the varying degrees of complementarity impact on the systems performance and the use of renewable generation. In this work, a wind-PV hybrid system was considered to cover a constant load. Both sources generated the same overall amount of energy, which on average was equal to the load.
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