An Optimization Method Based on Time-Sharing Energy Complementation to Determine Transmission Capacity of Wind-CSP Plants Combined System

Since northwest China has abundant wind and solar resources, constructing the concentrating solar power (CSP) plant near to the wind-generated electricity factory tend to a common form of energy exploiting. How to size for the capacity of the transmission line to meet the demand of delivery of the wind-concentrated solar power (CSP) plant system becomes an intensive problem. Based on the theory of time-sharing energy complementarity, this paper proposes a mathematical optimization model of the integrated output of Wind farm and CSP plant to suppress the power fluctuations. Then, by independently considering the impacts of the thermal storage capacity of CSP plant, the capacity optimization model of transmission line of wind power-CSP combined system is established. The case result demonstrates that the proposed method can reduce the investment cost of transmission line by reasonably configuring the thermal storage capacity of CSP. Moreover, the proposed strategy significantly improves the utilization rate of the transmission line and increases the comprehensive income of the joint generation system.