Offshore wind and solar complementarity in Brazil: A theoretical and technical potential assessment

Spatio‐temporal availability of renewable energy sources for Western Paraná

“…51 Currently, approximately 4000 photovoltaic power generation projects are found distributed throughout the country, in addition to about 700 wind power generation projects in the Northeast and South regions. 52 This scenario is extended worldwide, where these sources are predominant, or even combined with a third possibility as bioenergy. 53 Some works point to the existence of complementarity between wind and hydro sources in several regions of Brazil, 54 including the Our results demonstrated, although at different scales, a similar behavior between the wind speed and irradiation data throughout the year (Figure 3).…”

“…In Latin America, Brazil stands out as the “hotspot” with the greatest potential for wind and photovoltaic complementarity, emphasizing the importance of further studies on the use of these resources 51 . Currently, approximately 4000 photovoltaic power generation projects are found distributed throughout the country, in addition to about 700 wind power generation projects in the Northeast and South regions 52 . This scenario is extended worldwide, where these sources are predominant, or even combined with a third possibility as bioenergy 53 …”

A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

“…Most of the scientific publications in Brazil are associated with offshore wind and wave energy resources. In the totality of 107 scientific publications on ORE in Brazil, a total of 46 include offshore wind subjects, including theoretical, technical and economic potential assessment [22,28,[44][45][46], resource complementarity including hydropower, offshore wind and offshore solar [47,48], offshore wind environmental [34] and social [49] impacts and regulatory aspects [36]. Research about wave energy in Brazil started in 2000, focusing mainly on wave resource potential [50,51], wave-to-wire modeling [52], geometry optimization [53] and control systems and strategies [30,[54][55][56], experimental tests including dry tests [57] and reduced scale models in wave tank [58], economic feasibility [27] and environmental aspects [59] of WECs.…”

“…Note that 86% of the offshore wind resources of the southeast and south regions are located in water depths of more than 50 m [22]. Nascimento et al [48] addressed the offshore wind and solar complementarity in Brazil. The result showed that the daily complementarity of offshore wind by offshore solar reaches up to 40% along the Brazilian coastline.…”

Modelo para estudo de complementaridade entre fontes intermitentes em plantas híbridas com energias marinhas renováveis, solar e eólica.

“…No Brasil existe uma grande quantidade de trabalhos, sobretudo relacionados ao Sistema Interligado Nacional e as fontes hidráulica e eólica, que são majoritariamente responsáveis pela produção de eletricidade no país. Eles apontam que há diversas complementaridades como: espacial de hidráulica entre regiões (Cantão et al, 2017;Luz e Moura, 2019;Luz et al, 2023); entre hidrelétricas e eólicas locais e regionais (Palfi e Zambon, 2013;Neto et al, 2014;Cantão et al, 2017;Araujo e Marinho, 2019;Ávila et al, 2020Luz et al, 2023); entre hidráulica e eólica offshore (Silva et al, 2016;Bagatini et al, 2017); entre solar e outras fontes (Beluco et al, 2008;Bagatini et al, 2017;Santos et al, 2020;Campos et al, 2020;Weschenfelder et al, 2020;Carpio, 2021;Nascimento et al, 2022).…”