Techno-Economic Evaluation of CSP–PV Hybrid Plants with Heat Pump in a Temperature Booster Configuration

Javier Iñigo-Labairu (), Jürgen Dersch (), Tobias Hirsch, Stefano Giuliano, Matthias Loevenich and Diego Córdoba
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Javier Iñigo-Labairu: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany
Jürgen Dersch: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany
Tobias Hirsch: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Stefano Giuliano: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Matthias Loevenich: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany
Diego Córdoba: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Solar Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: Concentrated solar power (CSP)—photovoltaic (PV) hybrid power plants allow for the generation of cheap electrical energy with a high capacity factor (CF). A deep integration of both technologies offers synergies, using parts of the PV generated electricity for heating the thermal storage tank of the CSP unit. Such configurations have been previously studied for systems coupled by an electric resistance heater (ERH). In this work, the coupling of a CSP and a PV plant using a heat pump (HP) was analyzed due to the higher efficiency of heat pumps. The heat pump is used as a booster to lift the salt temperature in the storage system from 383 to 565 °C in order to reach higher turbine efficiency. A techno-economic analysis of the system was performed using the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), the capacity factor and nighttime electricity fraction as variables for the representation. The CSP–PV hybrid with a booster heat pump was compared with other technologies such as a CSP–PV hybrid plant coupled by an electric heater, a standalone parabolic trough plant (PT), a photovoltaic system with battery storage (PV–BESS), and a PV thermal power plant (PVTP) consisting of a PV plant with an electric heater, thermal energy storage (TES) and a power block (PB).

Keywords: hybrid CSP–PV power plant; heat pump; techno-economic analysis; thermal storage; battery energy storage system; electric heater; simulation tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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