Recording of Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | The smarter E Europe | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 16:49 .

RWE Renewables Presents Strategies for Hybrid Wind and Solar Projects to Overcome Grid Infrastructure Challenges

Kyle Ryan, a senior solar engineer at RWE Renewables, presents on hybrid wind and solar solutions in the context of saturated grid infrastructure. RWE Renewables is a leading global renewable energy company with significant rankings in offshore wind and solar installations across various regions including the US, UK, Europe, and Australia. The company's diverse portfolio spans over 20 years with investments heavily rooted in green technologies aiming for 65 gigawatts of installed capacity by 2030. The primary challenge addressed is grid-related issues such as connection delays, lack of transparency from operators, increasing prices for connections, congestion problems especially seen in Spain due to oversupply. To counter these challenges strategically while optimizing resources and increasing revenue streams without extensive land use or new infrastructure expenditures. RWE Renewables considers hybridizing existing assets mainly through integrating solar into current wind farms to enhance production capacity efficiently using shared infrastructures. This approach also mitigates financial uncertainties typically associated with standalone projects hence proposing an optimized solution that balances resource utilization against environmental constraints effectively

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Speaker

Kyle David Ryan
Senior Project Engineer, Solar Engineering
RWE Renewables Europe & Australia GmbH
Germany

Talk of session: Hybrid PV Power Plants I: Providing Flexible Generation for the Energy System

Hybrid power plants play a crucial role in addressing the flexibility limitations of variable renewables. Solar and wind and/or battery storage systems improve grid-stability, allow to integrate more renewable energy and offer potential additional revenue for power plant operators.

This session will include:

• Hybrid solar power plant case studies
• Status and developments of hybrid solar power plant systems
• Policy frameworks for a solar-based hybrid power supply

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome and Introduction

Speaker

Jenny Chase
Lead Solar Analyst
BloombergNEF
United Kingdom

To Talk

Impact on Co-Located BESS on Utility PV System Designs

Speaker

Johannes Linder
Director System Design & Innovation
BELECTRIC GmbH
Germany

To Talk

Zerbst: Developing Germany's Largest Hybrid PV-BESS Project

Speaker

Laurent Talbot
Head of Energy Storage
Statkraft Erneuerbare GmbH
Germany

To Talk

How Optimized Schedules & Revenue Stacking Make Hybrid Plants Profitable

Speaker

Isabella Caschetto
Product Manager Digital Services
SMA Solar Technology AG
Deutschland

To Talk

Fire Chat: How Can We Find Enough Flexibility in the Energy System for the Solar Industry to Build a Terawatt a Year?

Speaker

Howard Wenger
President
Nextracker
Spain

To Talk