TES ENERGY STORAGE

Hello,
I would like to how to do analysis for Gemasolar power plant with thermal energy storage a without thermal energy storage ,i am planning o study what is the difference between the costs when i just change the tes capacity the cos of electricity is low with tes than without tes.


Thanking you,
Vamsi

Dear Vamsi,

I don't know what your assumptions are, but reducing the total installed cost by removing storage from the system will affect the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in a few different ways that might cause it to go either up or down. Here are some things to check:

1. Did you reduce the size of the solar field when you removed storage to minimize the amount of dumped thermal energy?

2. Is there a capacity-based incentive (on the Incentives input page) that would be smaller with a lower insteallation cost?

3. Did you specify the storage installation cost in $/kWht (as it is by default on the System Costs input page) so that it is zero for a system with no storage?

Best regards,
Paul.