Parabolic trough solar technology is the most proven and lowest cost large-scale solar power technology available today, primarily because of the nine large commercial-scale solar power plants that are operating in the California Mojave Desert. However, no new plants have been built during the past ten years because the cost of power from these plants is more expensive than power from conventio...

The article is devoted to the development of a digital twin solar power plant. An overview existing solutions in this area given. approach building based on ontological engineering discussed more detail. main steps are described. A fragment system ontologies photovoltaic systems presented. mathematical model designed simulate plant taking into account changes environmental parameters considered...

Modeling and control of a solar power plant using support vector learning is considered in this work. The model is based on a radial basis function network architecture and uses subtractive clustering and support vector learning to find the parameters and size of the network. To achieve a more interpretable structure the proposed method proceeds in two phases. Firstly, the input-output data is ...

We study the economic viability and optimal sizing and siting of a hybrid plant that combines a ringwall hydro storage system with wind and solar power plants (ringwall storage hybrid power plant, RSHPP). A real options model is introduced to analyze the economics of an onshore RSHPP, and in particular of the varying storage volume in light of the stochastic character of wind and solar power, a...

The generation of electricity from solar thermal source has continued to garner more attention due to the very attractive environmental performance, the applicability to small distributed users and as alternative to the fossil fuels power generation. Indeed, solar thermal energy, through the coupling with ORC systems, becomes fit for electric power generation as well and, with a proper thermal ...