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

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

Applied Energy, 2025, vol. 379, issue C, No S0306261924022785

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Hybrid power plants; Curtailment; Oversizing; Overinstalling; Retrofitting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124895

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