Hybrid Power Plants: An Effective Way of Decreasing Loss-of-Load Expectation: Article No. 132245

Elenya Grant, Caitlyn Clark

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Abstract

Diversifying variable renewable resources by combining wind, solar photovoltaic, and battery assets in a hybrid power plant can increase renewable energy usage efficiency and improve system flexibility, particularly in distributed energy systems. However, the resilience impact of these systems, particularly outage mitigation, can be difficult to quantify due to uncertainty in resource, energy demand, and outage occurrence. This study outlines a framework to quantify the incremental benefit of hybrid power plant assets for reducing loss-of-load expectation during random outage events. Hybrid power plant performance during outages (considering varying duration and severity) is simulated using a Monte Carlo methodology to reflect uncertainty associated with renewable resource, load demand, and outage timing. Results demonstrate the additional incremental value from increasingly hybrid designs, in which relative capacities of wind, solar photovoltaic, and storage assets contribute to lower loss-of-load expectation than the constituent technologies would alone. The value of added wind or solar capacity increases as the plant composition approaches an equal split. The value of added battery capacity depends on the outage duration and severity, but the first 50 MWh of added storage capacity is the most valuable for reducing the loss-of-load expectation for all plant designs.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages8
JournalEnergy
Volume307
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5000-86024

Keywords

  • battery energy storage system
  • hybrid power plant
  • loss-of-load expectation
  • microgrid
  • resilience
  • solar energy
  • wind energy

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