Understanding the wind and solar complementarity of solar container communication stations

Why is spatiotemporal complementarity of wind and solar power important?

Understanding the spatiotemporal complementarity of wind and solar power generation and their combined capability to meet the demand of electricity is a crucial step towards increasing their share in power systems without neglecting neither the security of supply nor the overall cost efficiency of the power system operation.

Is there a complementarity between wind and solar power production?

In , a considerable complementarity between the wind and solar power production in Portugal was also identified, i.e., when the solar PV output is maximum, wind generation tends to exhibit the minimum values (daytime), and vice versa.

How do we evaluate the complementarity of solar and wind energy systems?

The review of the techniques that have been used to evaluate the complementarity of solar and wind energy systems shows that traditional statistical methods are mostly applied to assess complementarity of the resources, such as correlation coefficient, variance, standard deviation, percentile ranking, and mean absolute error.

Can wind and solar PV complementarity be used as a planning strategy?

Notwithstanding these limitations, the result of this work clearly highlights the added value of using wind and solar PV complementarity and electricity criteria as a planning strategy for new VRE capacity deployment aiming to reduce the power flexibility needs, namely, the use of expensive energy storage systems.