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Retrofitting wind power plants into hybrid PV–wind power plants: Impact of resource related characteristics on techno-economic feasibility

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  • Klyve, Øyvind Sommer
  • Olkkonen, Ville
  • Nygård, Magnus Moe
  • Lingfors, David
  • Marstein, Erik Stensrud
  • Lindberg, Oskar

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The concept of hybrid power plants (HPPs), wherein co-located solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind assets share a common point of interconnection (POI) with the grid, is gaining traction. The wind and solar resources can be anti-correlated, and this opens for oversizing the capacity of these HPPs relative to their nominal POI capacity while ensuring low curtailment losses. Thus, retrofitting existing wind power plants into PV-wind HPPs can be a promising strategy in regions where access to the grid is a barrier to capacity expansion. However, it is not clear how the resource availability and anti-correlation of the solar and wind resources at a given location impact the techno-economic feasibility for retrofitting an existing wind power plant with PV capacity.

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  • Klyve, Øyvind Sommer & Olkkonen, Ville & Nygård, Magnus Moe & Lingfors, David & Marstein, Erik Stensrud & Lindberg, Oskar, 2025. "Retrofitting wind power plants into hybrid PV–wind power plants: Impact of resource related characteristics on techno-economic feasibility," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 379(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:379:y:2025:i:c:s0306261924022785
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124895
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