Assessment of on-site steady electricity generation from renewable energy sources in Chile

Luis Ramirez Camargo; Javier Valdes; Yunesky Masip Macia; Wolfgang Dorner

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.266

Assessment of on-site steady electricity generation from renewable energy sources in Chile

Luis Ramirez Camargo^*, Javier Valdes, Yunesky Masip Macia, Wolfgang Dorner

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Abstract

Chile has an immense renewable energy potential but their integration in the energy system constitutes a major challenge. The complex topography of the country, the isolation of the different electric grids and the variability of renewable energy sources, makes energy transmission from locations with high variable renewable power generation potential to the demand centres not an easy task. The present study aims at assessing the potential of combining solar power, wind power and storage systems to provide steady loads already from the source. Such a combination should take advantage of complementarity between variable renewable sources and serves to simplify their integration in the energy system. The analysis relies on an optimization model to size hybrid renewable energy systems and 10 years of weather data from the brand new ERA-5 reanalysis. Necessary system sizes to constantly generate 1 MWh of electricity for every hour during the period 2008-2017 are calculated for all possible locations across the country. The results show that the necessary generation and storage capacities to provide a steady energy output are very high even for areas with exceptionally high renewable energy potential.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1099-1104
Number of pages	6
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	158
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.266
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2018 - Hong Kong, China Duration: 22 Aug 2018 → 25 Aug 2018

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Funding Information:
The study was conducted within the project INCREASE "Increasing renewable energy penetration in industrial production and grid integration through optimized CHP energy dispatch scheduling and demand side management" (grant number BMBF150075) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chilean National Commission for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICYT).

Funding Information:
(grant number BMBF150075) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chilean National Commission for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICYT).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAE2018 - The 10th International Conference on Applied Energy.

Funding

The study was conducted within the project INCREASE "Increasing renewable energy penetration in industrial production and grid integration through optimized CHP energy dispatch scheduling and demand side management" (grant number BMBF150075) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chilean National Commission for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICYT). (grant number BMBF150075) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chilean National Commission for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICYT).

Keywords

Chilean energy transition
ERA-5
Renewable energies
Spatiotemporal modelling
System sizing optimization

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Assessment of on-site steady electricity generation from renewable energy sources in Chile

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