Hybridizing floating solar with hydropower

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have said that the combination of floating solar with hydropower could reduce PV curtailment.NREL scientists have tried to quantify the operational benefits of combining floating PV generation with hydropower plants. In "Enabling Floating Solar Photovoltaic (FPV) Deployment," the researchers considered both the long- and short-term combination of the two energy sources. In their proposed system configuration, the hydropower facility would rely on a grid interconnection capacity that equals its installed capacity. The floating PV array, ...

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