Generation expansion planning based on solar plants with storage

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• 作者：K. Rajesh^a ; ^{k.rajesh@klu.ac.in" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; K. Karthikeyan^b ; ^{karthikeyanju@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; S. Kannan^b ; ^{kannaneeeps@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; C. Thangaraj^c ; ^{thangaraj.vc@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae
• 关键词：Differential Evolution (DE) ; Emission ; Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) ; Solar power plants ; Reliability indices ; Tamilnadu
• 刊名：Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：57
• 期：Complete
• 页码：953-964
• 全文大小：529 K

文摘

The introduction of renewable energy technologies (RET), like solar and wind power plants, into a power system introduces both expansion and operational challenges. Earlier studies have indicated the requirements for additional backup power facilities requirements for every addition of RET plants, due to the unique generation characteristics of these RET plants. Of late, alternative strategies of creating power storage facilities using power from RETs and drawing constant supply from such storage facilities are drawing the attention of power system planners.

In this paper, generation expansion planning (GEP) mathematical modeling studies are carried for a candidate power system, to study the impact of introduction of solar power plant with storage facility. The study is planned in a four-level hierarchy, based on (a) investment strategies of introducing solar plants as an alternative candidate plant or as a replacement of existing high emission plants (HEP) (b) whether the solar plant with storage (SPWS) or with no storage (SPWNS) capacity and (c) inclusion of treatment/penalty costs on emissions from high emission plants. The sensitivity of the system performance factors, like, the capacity added, overall costs and EENS for variations in assumed Forced outage rate (FOR%) for SPWNS and SPWS is also carried for assumed solar penetration levels of 5–10% and 10–20% for 6-year and 14-year planning horizons. The system performance was highly sensitive to the assumed FOR%. The model investigations offer an encouraging scenario in power system planning when SPWS is introduced as an alternative investment candidate plants into the system. This study, while attempting to illustrate the complexity of decision making process in introducing solar plants into an existing system provides a four-level hierarchy in understanding comprehensive set of policy issues that might arise in GEP and enables planners to adopt situation-specific solutions.