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Spatiotemporal Complementary Characteristics of Large-Scale Wind Power, Photovoltaic Power, and Hydropower

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  • Songkai Wang

    (School of Water Resources and Hydropower, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
    Key Laboratory of Smart Energy in Xi’an, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China)

  • Rong Jia

    (Key Laboratory of Smart Energy in Xi’an, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
    School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China)

  • Chang Luo

    (Hanjiang-to-Weihe River Valley Water Diversion Project Construction Co., Ltd., Xi’an 710048, China)

  • Yuan An

    (Key Laboratory of Smart Energy in Xi’an, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
    School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China)

  • Pengcheng Guo

    (School of Water Resources and Hydropower, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China)

Abstract

With the increasing proportion of renewable energy in power generation, the mixed utilization of multiple renewable energy sources has gradually become a new trend. Using the natural complementary characteristics of wind power, photovoltaic, and hydropower to evaluate the complementary potential of various energy sources has become a hot issue in the research of mixed utilization. Given that traditional complementarity research can only assess the complementarity between two energy sources, this paper proposes a method to simultaneously determine the complementarity between three large-scale renewable energy sources. Firstly, a three-dimensional vector represents the complementary characteristic combination of any two energy sources. The complementary characteristics of the three energy sources were obtained by finding the optimal solution for the three-dimensional vector. Finally, power stations were selected, located in different spatial areas on the world’s largest renewable energy base in Qinghai, China, as the research object to analyze and verify the complementary characteristics of wind-power–photovoltaic-power–hydropower at different spatiotemporal scales. The results show significant differences in the complementary characteristics of different time scales. The farther the spatial distance between different power stations, the stronger their complementarity. The best complementary index on the monthly and daily scales was improved by 8.49% and 6.51%. This study provides a new focus for the future evaluation of the complementary utilization potential of large-scale joint renewable energy in different world regions.

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  • Songkai Wang & Rong Jia & Chang Luo & Yuan An & Pengcheng Guo, 2022. "Spatiotemporal Complementary Characteristics of Large-Scale Wind Power, Photovoltaic Power, and Hydropower," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-17, July.
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