Assessment of solar and wind energy potential in La Guajira, Colombia: Current status, and future prospects

Carvajal-Romo, Gabriele; Valderrama-Mendoza, Mateo; Rodríguez-Urrego, Daniella; Rodríguez-Urrego, Leonardo

doi:10.1016/j.seta.2019.100531

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“…One instance is through the location of alternative sources of income to agriculture, livestock farming, and fishing. Some feasible alternatives include wind energy plants, tourism, sustainable algae mariculture [11,[76][77][78]. Local community governance and management of coastal areas and resources are necessary.…”

Section: Strategies For Conservation and Management Of Guajira's Coastal Environmentsmentioning

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Biodiversity of Upwelling Coastal Systems of the Southern Caribbean Sea Adjacent to Guajira Peninsula

Vásquez-Carrillo

Sealey

2021

JMSE

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This paper describes the unique natural communities and biodiversity of the upwelling coastal system along the Guajira peninsula in the southern Caribbean Sea. The Guajira peninsula has a small human population with limited infrastructure and limited opportunities for coastal research, yet its coastal upwelling system is unique in the Tropical Western Atlantic region. This report includes both field observations along with a review of literature on the biodiversity of coastal eastern Guajira. In addition, it identifies missing information on the coastal system that is key to its management and conservation. Mangrove wetlands along with submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) communities in a combination of consolidated and unconsolidated shorelines (e.g., rocky shores, cliffs, and beaches) form unique habitats in eastern Guajira. The diversity of these habitats is illustrated with the Bahia Hondita marine lagoon, where critical nursery habitat for several commercial valuable and endangered fisheries species, including sharks and sea turtles, is observed. Less information is available on more cryptic fauna, invertebrates, and coastal plankton species. Several anthropogenic factors are threatening species diversity in coastal Guajira, including overgrazing, mining, and target-species overfishing. Additional threats, such as extreme weather events (e.g., storms and droughts) as well as changes in coastal water quality, are also impacting species. The protection of the Guajira’s biodiversity would depend on local communities’ governance and empowerment as well as law enforcement for mining and agriculture operations. Management plans can include reducing land-based sources of pollution and building coastal resilience for climate change.

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Section: Strategies For Conservation and Management Of Guajira's Coastal Environmentsmentioning

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Biodiversity of Upwelling Coastal Systems of the Southern Caribbean Sea Adjacent to Guajira Peninsula

Vásquez-Carrillo

Sealey

2021

JMSE

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“…Solar panels and wind turbines can take advantage of solar irradiation and wind speed, respectively, which benefits the Colombian Caribbean region, studies show that only by implementing wind turbines in 20% of the territory of the department of La Guajira and 10% in the sea, the national energy demand of Colombia would be supplied and 40% would be left over (Carvajal-Romo et al, 2019).…”

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Economic and Environmental Multiobjective Optimization of a Hybrid Power Generation System using Solar and Wind Energy Source

Rojas

García²,

Castillo³

2022

IJEEP

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This article presents a comparison of energy generation using two methods of power production for different geographical locations. For this comparison, the HOMER software was used, which allows simulating generation systems with different energy sources. For the development of these simulations it was necessary to collect three parameters in the locations to be analyzed, which were wind speed, solar radiation and temperature. The photovoltaic array system was simulated using from 10 to 200 units with a constant value of one wind turbine, while for the wind turbine system, 1 to 9 units were used together with a constant value of 100 photovoltaic arrays. For the photovoltaic system, there is no major difference in the net project cost, the renewable fraction and the annual carbon dioxide production when using a greater number of arrays, but an increase in energy production is observed, a greater effect is obtained by changing the location of the system, analyzing the wind system a greater number of turbines increases the energy production, but also increase the annual carbon dioxide production and project cost, there is no significant difference between locations for the project cost the other parameters are affected. By using an optimization algorithm in the systems, the best performance was obtained in Puerto Bolivar using 105 photovoltaic arrays of 1kW and 3 wind turbines of 1.5MW.

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“…We realize that there is still a long way to go to be close to the countries that best have managed the implementation of this technology [10]- [12]. According to studies carried out by the mining-energy planning unit (UPME for its abbreviation in Spanish), the energy potential of the department of La Guajira is so great that using 20% of its surface, 42,000 MW of electricity generation could be obtained using solar energy, achieving, in addition, to bring electricity to non-interconnected zones (ZNI for its abbreviation in Spanish) in the said department and other neighboring regions of the Caribbean region [13]. In correspondence with data from the Institute for Planning and Promotion of Energy Solutions for Non-Interconnected Zones (IPPES-ZNI) in Colombia, 90 municipalities are in the ZNI, covering about 52% of the national territory.…”

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Challenges and perspectives of the use of photovoltaic solar energy in Colombia

Rocha

Batista

Rodríguez

et al. 2022

IJECE

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This article quantifies the development of photovoltaic solar energy in Colombia and its current development prospects. The high demand for electricity in Colombia is increasing since there is a large population, industrial, and business increase, which brings a higher energy consumption and consequently economic, social, and environmental problems. Faced with this situation, a possible solution is proposed, using solar energy, to supply the increase in demand and mitigate the problems caused by current electricity generation because Colombia has high levels of solar radiation in almost the entire territory. The objective of this research is based on the analysis of the behavior of the projects on photovoltaic solar systems presented to the mining-energy planning unit (UPME) in the last 14 years until September 30, 2020, as well such as the study of the areas with the most effective implementation of this technology and their respective radiation indices. In addition, a synthesis is made of the regulations, laws, and tax incentives that exist for the implementation of this technology and the different stages of execution of the projects approved and in performance.

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Assessment of solar and wind energy potential in La Guajira, Colombia: Current status, and future prospects

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

Biodiversity of Upwelling Coastal Systems of the Southern Caribbean Sea Adjacent to Guajira Peninsula

Biodiversity of Upwelling Coastal Systems of the Southern Caribbean Sea Adjacent to Guajira Peninsula

Economic and Environmental Multiobjective Optimization of a Hybrid Power Generation System using Solar and Wind Energy Source

Challenges and perspectives of the use of photovoltaic solar energy in Colombia

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