Multiphysics-coupled study of wind load effects on optical performance of parabolic trough collector

Spatiotemporal Distribution and Complementarity of Wind and Solar Energy in China

“…Previous studies have shown that more research focuses on assessing the amount of renewable resources in a river basin or a region of China [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. No direct assessment and analysis exist for the two types of renewable resources in China, and in-depth complementary research is still lacking on the two types of renewable resources (i.e., wind and solar) [16,17,22,23]. Therefore, the objective of this work is to quantitatively analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of wind-and solar-energy resources in China on the scale of a river basin and to quantitatively assess the complementarity of these two renewable resources on the interannual scale.…”

“…Zhang et al evaluated the benefits of wind-and solar-energy resource complementarity in northwest China, and the results showed that wind-and solar-energy resource complementarity is economically and socially feasible in northwest China [22]. Zhang et al used the correlation coefficient R to study the suitability of the wind-and solar-energy resource complementary in the coastal areas of China, and the results showed that the wind-energy resource complementary becomes more suitable as the latitude decreases [23]. Therefore, after comparing the suitability of the data and the research methods used in the present work, we adopted the Spearman coefficient to evaluate and analyze the temporal complementarity of wind-and solar-energy resources in China because it ignores the dimensionality of different data, thereby allowing an accurate interpretation of the complementarity of the two resources.…”