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A bottom-up GIS-based method for simulation of ground-mounted PV potentials at regional scale

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العنوان: A bottom-up GIS-based method for simulation of ground-mounted PV potentials at regional scale
المؤلفون: Keyu Bao, Louis Kalisch, Thunyathep Santhanavanich, Daniela Thrän, Bastian Schröter
المصدر: Energy Reports, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 5053-5066 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
مصطلحات موضوعية: Photovoltaic, Ground-mounted PV, Bottom-up simulation, Geographic Information System (GIS), Food–water–energy nexus, Potential simulation, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
الوصف: Solar photovoltaic (PV) is a key technology for any renewable energy system. As subsidy-free PV becomes more and more economically feasible, region-specific planning tools that define areas suitable for ground-mounted PV are needed. While many top-down studies have assessed suitable areas at a national scale, an accurate scalable bottom-up assessment of regional ground-mounted PV potentials in high spatial and temporal resolution that goes further than a mere identification of appropriate land areas is missing. This work introduces such a method based on digital landscape models that consider terrain slope, orientation, location-specific irradiation, and land use type, and combines this geoinformatical information with a PV yield model that allows to assess hourly PV generation potential on suitable areas. The method is validated with three existing ground-mounted PV plants in Germany, where a comparison of real and simulated annual electricity yields shows average deviations of 5%. Subsequently, ground-mounted PV potentials in three German counties with varying settlement structures as well as topographic and weather patterns are assessed and a comparison of yearly and hourly simulated generation potentials with regional electricity demand is performed. While the yearly analysis demonstrates the substantial overall potentials of local ground mounted-PV in all regions, with demand coverages ranging from 80% to hypothetically more than 40 times of current electricity demand according to current regulations, the hourly autarky ratio, defined as the share of hours of a year where ground-mounted PV can satisfy demand, ranges from 25% to 40%, without consideration of storage or demand side management. A subsequent investigation of the ability to export excess electricity generation from ground-mounted PV shows that the two regions with highest ground-mounted PV potentials have less-developed grid infrastructures, thus restricting excess electricity generation export potentials.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2352-4847
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722007429; https://doaj.org/toc/2352-4847
DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2022.03.187
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e767f96f500d44199e2fbd61903bdf38
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.767f96f500d44199e2fbd61903bdf38
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:23524847
DOI:10.1016/j.egyr.2022.03.187