Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1512160 Energy Procedia 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
This study addresses the task of identifying optimum locations for solar and wind power plants so that the wind-plus- solar power generation meets certain conditions of efficiency and stability, thus allowing to overcome the downside that the natural variability of these renewable resources represents. The method was based on a simulated annealing algorithm and applied over the Iberian Peninsula, a region whose commitment to renewable energy is growing relatively fast. Obtained results are encouraging since a number of different sensitivity experiments support the spatio-temporal complementarity between solar and wind power, at least at the monthly time-scale, in this region.
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