US 11,946,456 B2
Hybrid power plant
Karthikeya Balladi Raghuchandra, Aarhus N (DK); and Loránd Demsa, Aarhus C (DK)
Assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N. (DK)
Appl. No. 17/267,753
Filed by VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S, Aarhus N (DK)
PCT Filed Aug. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/DK2019/050239
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/030237, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PA 2018 70522 (DK), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0317820 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H02J 3/38 (2006.01); F03D 9/00 (2016.01); F03D 9/25 (2016.01); F03D 80/20 (2016.01); H02S 10/12 (2014.01)
CPC F03D 9/007 (2013.01) [F03D 9/25 (2016.05); F03D 80/20 (2016.05); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02S 10/12 (2014.12); F05B 2220/708 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power plant comprising:
a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) modules arranged in a first and a second region of the power plant, wherein the PV modules in the same region are electrically connected with each other, and wherein the PV modules of the first region are electrically connected to a first converter and to a local grid of the power plant via the first converter, and the PV modules of the second region are electrically connected to a second converter and to the local grid via the second converter, and wherein the PV modules of the first region are electrically isolated from the PV modules of the second region; and
a wind turbine generator (WTG) which is arranged such that the WTG is able to cast a shadow over at least one of the PV modules;
wherein the first region and the second region extend in a substantially radial direction away from the WTG such that at most one of the two regions is at least partially covered by the shadow of the WTG at any time.