DENG Youjun, ZHANG Yongxi, LI Bo, LUO Lingtong, HOU Tingting
Concentrating solar power (CSP), as an important renewable energy power generation technology, generates electricity by using concentrating collectors, thermal storage system and steam turbines, etc. Compared with photovoltaic power generation, CSP uses thermal storage system (TSS) to achieve similar output characteristics such as good regulation performance and strong climbing ability with conventional gas turbines, and continuous heat generation at night or in the absence of light. Therefore, considering CSP can provide controllable, continuous and stable output, and good auxiliary services for centralized charging stations, CSP and centralized charging station are integrated to operate together. An orderly charging strategy for centralized charging stations considering CSP is proposed, and an orderly charging model with the objective of minimizing the total costs of daily purchase electricity cost and system load fluctuation penalty fee is constructed. Numerical simulation results show that, considering CSP can effectively reduce the electricity purchase costs and balancing the fluctuation of system load. Besides, the different effects of photovoltaic power generation and CSP on the operation results are analyzed comparatively, and the operation results under different TSS capacity configurations are analyzed comparatively.