Estimating the Capacity Value of Concentrating Solar Power Plants: A Case Study of the Southwestern United States

Seyed Hossein Madaeni; Ramteen Sioshansi; Paul Denholm

doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179071

Estimating the Capacity Value of Concentrating Solar Power Plants: A Case Study of the Southwestern United States

Seyed Hossein Madaeni, Ramteen Sioshansi, Paul Denholm

Grid Planning and Analysis Center

Ohio State University

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Abstract

We estimate the capacity value of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants without thermal energy storage in the southwestern U.S. Our results show that CSP plants have capacity values that are between 45% and 95% of maximum capacity, depending on their location and configuration. We also examine the sensitivity of the capacity value of CSP to a number of factors and show that capacity factor-based methods can provide reasonable approximations of reliability-based estimates.

Original language	American English
Article number	6140619
Pages (from-to)	1116-1124
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179071 https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179071
State	Published - May 2012

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NREL/JA-6A20-53629

Keywords

Capacity value
concentrating solar power
equivalent conventional power

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