Reliability evaluation of tidal and wind power generation system with battery energy storage

This paper presents a method for reliability evaluation of a hybrid generation system of wind and tidal powers with battery energy storage.Such a system may widely exist in coastal areas and islands in the future.A chronological multiple state probability model of tidal power generation system(TPGS)considering both forced outage rate(FOR)of the TPGS and random nature of tidal current speed is developed.In the evaluation of FORs of TPGS and WPGS(wind power generation system),the delivered power related failure rates of power electronic converters for TPGS and WPGS are considered.A chronological power output model of battery energy storage system(BESS)is derived.A hybrid system of tidal and wind generation powers with a BESS is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method.In case studies,the effects of various parameters on the system reliability are investigated.

Comprehensive evaluation method for tidal current power generation device

There are many types of tidal current power generation devices,and it is necessary to make comprehensive evaluation of tidal current power generation devices in order to provide valuable reference for the improvement of their performance indexes.On the basis of the analysis of the tidal current power generation device performance indexes,the hierarchical model for comprehensive evaluation of device performance is given in this paper.By normalizing the membership matrix elements based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model,all the values of the matrix elements are restrained in the range of0.0 to 1.0,hence the complexity of the calculations is reduced.Vector similarity is used to determine the expert weights which reflect the knowledge and experience of the experts.This paper presents an improved method for rank correlation analysis,and calculates the comprehensive weight value and the final evaluation results of tidal current power generation devices.The presented method improves the credibility of the evaluation.In the end,measured data of two units of tidal current power generation devices are evaluated in the paper,and the effectiveness of the presented method is verified.

Optimal Offering Strategy of Virtual Power Plant with Hybrid Renewable Ocean Energy Portfolio

This paper proposes a hybrid ocean energy sys-tem to form a virtual power plant(VPP)for participating in electricity markets in order to promote the renewable ocean energy utilization and accommodation.In the proposed system,solar thermal energy is integrated with the closed-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion(OTEC)to boost the temperature differences between the surface and deep seawater for efficiency and flexibility improvements,and the thermodynamic effects of seawater mass flow rates on the output of solar-boosted OTEC(SOTEC)are exploited for deploying SOTEC as a renewable dispatchable unit.An optimal tidal-storage operation model is also developed to make use of subsea pumped storage(SPS)with hydrostatic pressures at ocean depths for mitigating the intermittent tidal range energy in order to make the arbitrage in the electricity market.Furthermore,a two-stage coordinated scheduling strategy is presented to optimally control seawater mass flow rates of SOTEC and hydraulic reversible pump-turbines of SPS for enhancing the daily VPP profit.Comparative studies have been investigated to confirm the superiority of the developed methodology in various renewable ocean energy and electricity market price scenarios.