An Approach for Configuring Thermal Storage Capacity of Concentrated Solar Power Considering Low-Carbon Economic Dispatch

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) has gradually become an emerging development direction in the clean energy area because of its high energy efficiency, renewable and abundant nature. Thermal storage devices are used to regulate the power generation characteristics of CSP plants, and a rational configuration of thermal storage capacity can effectively reduce the system's carbon footprint. Considering the generation cost of thermal power generators, operation and maintenance cost of CSP plants, and system spinning reserve cost, a low-carbon economic dispatch scheme for power systems including CSP plants that takes carbon trading into account is proposed in this paper. On this basis, a thermal storage capacity allocation method for CSP plants is proposed, taking into account the thermal storage cost and dispatching cost. Additionally, simulation verification is performed on IEEE 30 network, and the findings demonstrate that the designed thermal storage capacity configuration strategy effectively reduces carbon emissions and overall system costs.