High Capacity Factor CSP-PV Hybrid Systems

Hybrid CSP/PV Receivers: Converting Optical Spillage to Electricity

This paper evaluates a novel receiver design concept that implements photovoltaic (PV) cells on heat shields and bellows shields to capture optical spillage from central receiver and parabolic trough concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, generating electricity from concentrated light that would otherwise be wasted. A combination of conventional silicon and multi-junction concentrating PV (CPV...

High Capacity Factor Wind Energy Systems

Wind generated electricity can be fundamentally transformed from an intermittent resource to a baseload power supply. For the case of long distance transmission of wind electricity, this change can be achieved at a negligible increase or even a decrease in the per unit cost of electricity. The economic and technical feasibility of this process can be illustrated by studying the example of a win...

Rural Electrification with PV Hybrid Systems

Hybrid Solving for CSP

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) [27] provide a general framework for the modeling of many practical applications (planning, scheduling, time tabling,...). Many examples of such constraint satisfaction problems can be found in [12]. A CSP is usually defined by a set of variables associated to domains of possible values and by a set of constraints. We only consider here CSP over finite dom...

Hybrid CSP Solving

model K.R. Apt [CP99] for propagation (based on chaotic iterations) Reduction functions of functions Abstraction Constraint CSP Fixed point Partial Ordering Application Hybrid Constraint Solving – p. 55 A Generic Algorithm: propagation for constraint propagation: ordering on size of domains work on a CSP F = { set of propagation functions} X = initial CSP G = F While G 6= ∅ choose g ∈ G G = G− ...