Qualitative evaluation of spatial complementarity between renewable energy resources with complementarity roses

摘要

class="kwd-title">Method name: Method for qualitative evaluation of spatial complementarity between renewable energy resources with complementarity roses class="kwd-title">Keywords: Renewable energy, Energetic complementarity, Hybrid energy systems, Spatial complementarity, Complementarity roses, Maps of complementarity class="head no_bottom_margin" id="abs0010title">AbstractEnergetic complementarity is a subject that has been concentrating more and more attention of the researchers around the world in the last years, a concept that can be applied both in energy planning and in operation of energy systems based on renewable energy resources. Spatial complementarity is the energetic complementarity evaluated between two renewable resources in different locations and, as well as the complementarity evaluated between resources in the same location, has three components: time-complementarity, energy-complementarity and amplitude-complementarity. At the same site, however, complementarity assessment can involve multiple resources simultaneously, and the study of these circumstances requires appropriate tools to handle such information.This method paper describes a method to build complementarity roses expressing the spatial complementarity between two or more renewable energy resources throughout a region, appropriate for the expression of this complementarity through maps.