Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 1116-1124Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179071
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Capacity value; concentrating solar power; equivalent conventional power
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
- Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC [AGJ-0-40267-01]
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We estimate the capacity value of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants without thermal energy storage in the south-western U.S. Our results show that CSP plants have capacity values that are between 45% and 95% of maximum capacity, depending on their location and configuration. We also examine the sensitivity of the capacity value of CSP to a number of factors and show that capacity factor-based methods can provide reasonable approximations of reliability-based estimates.
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