Author(s): Man Yue Lam; Reza Ahmadian
Linked Author(s): Man Yue Lam, Reza Ahmadian
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Abstract: Tidal Range Schemes (TRSs) are dispatchable energy sources critical for balancing electricity demand and supply. To support transition to Net Zero, a novel objective function, namely the renewable function, is proposed to reflect the proportion of electricity demand provided by renewable energy sources. The renewable function was applied to optimise a TRS in South Wales, UK, and its results were compared to energy and revenue optimised results. The revenue and renewable optimised TRSs generated more energy at the times when more energy was needed, giving higher total revenue and renewable function values respectively, at the expense of production less energy. Such an effect was more visible in revenue optimisation compared to renewable optimisation. Nevertheless, renewable optimisation may become important when the renewable energy supply is more volatile, and more testing under volatile renewables will be conducted in future.
Year: 2024