Impact of PV-CSP Intergrated System for Power Generation

Abstract

Solar and Wind energy is available in plenty in the country like India.Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaic (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Wind is the indirect form of solar energy and is always being replenished by the sun. Wind energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion also called wind.Technical potential of onshore wind energy is large. CSP technology with thermal storage having potential to replace the conventional thermal power plant.Advantage of CSP technology is that thermal storage technology is easily integrated with the CSP technology in compare with the photovoltaic and wind power technology. When the PV is hybridized with Wind it does not meet the satisfactory performance. PV and Wind power generation technologies not suitable at grid level due to intermittency in the availability of sun and wind. Hybridization of PV with CSP is the option to sole the intermittency problem and provide the energy at grid level. The research status of PV-CSP hybrid technology for its performance is summarized from the study made in this paper to provide a current global scenario, but it is observed that for economic and efficient power generation with the effective proportions of integrated PV-CSP hybrid systems that are yet to be researched.