Layout of island power supply based on multi-decadal meteorological sets - discussed using the case of the Faroe Islands power system
Abstract
The layout of renewable power supply systems – the sizing of its generation capacity (here: wind and solar) and its storage capacity - are complicated by the interannual variability of the meteorological conditions. To deal with this problem the use of multiannual sets is mandatory. Here both the sensitivity of the layout parameters on the length of the datasets negotiated, and the reliability of the sizing based on set sections compared to the sizing by a complete set. For this purpose, a 56-year set of daily data of wind speed and solar radiation for the location of the Faroe Islands (North Atlantic) is applied to study the sensitivity of the storage sizing to variations of the number of years considered.