TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of energy storage on a combined wind and wave energy farm
AU - Tedeschi, Elisabetta
AU - Robles, Eider
AU - Santos, Maider
AU - Duperray, Olivier
AU - Salcedo, Fernando
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The combined installation of wind and wave energy converters is being proposed more and more often as a solution to exploit the potential complementarity between these two natural resources and to share the costs of their offshore infrastructures. This paper uses real meteorological data to evaluate the difference in the power performance of a single wind turbine and a combined wind/wave energy farm. The proposed case study considers a wind turbine coupled to wave arrays including a different number of point absorbers and the importance of an optimized tuning of the Wave Energy Converters to maximize the output power is shown. As a further step it is assumed that the farm is equipped with an energy storage device. The impact of its power and energy rating and of its efficiency on the achievable smoothing of the output power is analyzed.
AB - The combined installation of wind and wave energy converters is being proposed more and more often as a solution to exploit the potential complementarity between these two natural resources and to share the costs of their offshore infrastructures. This paper uses real meteorological data to evaluate the difference in the power performance of a single wind turbine and a combined wind/wave energy farm. The proposed case study considers a wind turbine coupled to wave arrays including a different number of point absorbers and the importance of an optimized tuning of the Wave Energy Converters to maximize the output power is shown. As a further step it is assumed that the farm is equipped with an energy storage device. The impact of its power and energy rating and of its efficiency on the achievable smoothing of the output power is analyzed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342529
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342529
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870933600
SN - 9781467308014
T3 - 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
SP - 2798
EP - 2804
BT - 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
T2 - 4th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012
Y2 - 15 September 2012 through 20 September 2012
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