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The design considerations of the stand-alone wind and solar plant apply to the hybrid plant in addition to those imposed by their colocation, such as sizing and the effect of wind turbine shading on solar energy performance. The turbines' layout, wind conditions, and operations are key to the wind plant's annual energy production (AEP).
In this paper, we propose a parameterized approach to wind and solar hybrid power plant layout optimization that greatly reduces problem dimensionality while guaranteeing that the generated layouts have a desirable regular structure. Thus far, hybrid power plant optimization research has focused on system sizing.
While solar photovoltaic (PV) with bat-tery storage is the most common type of HPP, an increasingly prevalent hybrid combination is the combination of wind and solar. Wind–solar hybrid plants benefit from resource com-plementarity as well as shared permitting, siting, equipment, interconnection, transmission, and transaction costs.
At the commercial and utility scale, however, projects are extremely cost-sensitive, and developers will seek small optimizations (on the order of 1 %–3 %) that pro-vide an increase in plant profitability. This paper focuses on utility-scale wind and solar hybrid plants.
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