Hybrid Renewables Plant Project
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General Description
An analysis of the benefits and costs of implementing hybrid renewable energy plants using a variety of technologies.
Decision Situation
What is the impact on cost effectiveness, reliability and emissions of adding hybrid generation to renewable energy generation plants?
Possible Project Lead: First Light Solar Plant
A flat panel solar power plant located in Ontario, Canada.
The big potential here is to investigate hybridizing the plant with biomass generation. According to Geoff there is a lot of biomass material in the vicinity of the plant that would be suitable (sources include forestry waste, farming waste and a potential harvesting of switchgrass in the lakes). A biomass facility could be installed on site to help improve the cost of energy generated from the facility.
Hypothetical proposal A biomass facility could be installed of an identical capacity of the existing solar PV Peak Watt capacity of 9.1MW.
The 9.1MW installed in the First Light plant is the phase one of development. A second phase involves expanding the plant to 19.1MW, an additional 10MW. This seems to be driven by the requirements set up by the Ontario Power Authority in regards to their feed in tariff, which stipulates that the maximum size of a plant to receive tariffs is 10MW, but additional expansions of an existing plant can also be covered, as long as these expansions also are equal to or below 10MW [1].
Possible Project Lead: Marble Bar Solar Plant
A pair of facilities located in the towns of Marble Bar and Nullagine in WA, Australia.
