Artículo de revista
Simplified evaluation of energetic complementarity based on monthly average data
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2215-0161
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Autor
Beluco, Alexandre
Risso, Alfonso
A. Canales, Fausto
Institución
Resumen
Energetic complementarity is a subject that has been holding more and more attention from researchers in recent
years, being a concept that can be applied both in energy planning stages and in phases of operation of energy
systems based on renewable energy resources. The complementarity between two renewable sources of energy
has three components: time-complementarity, energy-complementarity and amplitude-complementarity, and
can be determined between raw energy availabilities or between energy generated by power plants.
Complementarity can be evaluated between two renewable resources in the same place or between two
renewable resources in different places and these two types can be denominated respectively as temporal and
spatial complementarity. This method allows simplified evaluation of the energy complementarity between two
renewable resources by comparing basic parameters obtained from series of monthly average values that
characterize these resources. Finally, an application example clarifies the application of the method.