GIS approach to the definition of capacity and generation ceilings of renewable energy technologies

Bravo, Javier Domínguez; Casals, Xavier García; Pascua, Irene

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2007.04.025

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“…As stated earlier, only sites with average daily DNI higher than 5 kWh/m 2 are assumed economically suitable in the literature. However, some studies considered lower DNI values [4,6]. For the land slope, 1% gradient was taken by [8,9,11,24,25] as most economical slope for CSP plant.…”

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“…Broesamle et al [5] made use of satellite data and Geographic Information System (GIS) to rank potential sites for CSP in North Africa. Bravo et al [6] in considering parabolic trough plants with 6 hours thermal storage, used GIS and found a generation ceiling of 9897 TWh/y for Spain. After taking just 1% of the whole wasteland in China as potential site for solar thermal power plant and assuming a land area requirement of 20.2 km 2 /GW of installed capacity for power tower technology, Hang et al [7] showed that 1300 GW of electricity generation capacity could be installed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Site Ranking and Potential Assessment for Concentrating Solar Power in West Africa

Ramde¹,

Azoumah²,

Brew-Hammond³

et al. 2013

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Access to electricity is poor in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) presents better opportunities for increasing access to electricity and for diversifying sources of energy in the ECOWAS region; however, to date, except for Burkina Faso, no site evaluation pertaining to the region has ever been performed for CSP. This study provides potential assessment and site ranking for large-scale CSP projects in the ECOWAS region. It computes the nominal potential power and gives the corresponding energy yield with many scenarios. By considering only 1% of the suitable land area with daily DNI greater or equal to 5 kWh/m², a land slope less or equal to 5% and distance to transmission line not more than 100 km, the study showed, for example, that West Africa has a potential nominal capacity of 21.3 GW for parabolic trough technology.

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Site Ranking and Potential Assessment for Concentrating Solar Power in West Africa

Ramde¹,

Azoumah²,

Brew-Hammond³

et al. 2013

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“…Energy produced from a biomass plant is directly related to the amount of biomass available as well as to the amount of accessible biomass in the wider area. The greater the amount of biomass available in a given area the greater the potential of electricity generation [67].…”

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A Spatial Decision Support System Framework for the Evaluation of Biomass Energy Production Locations: Case Study in the Regional Unit of Drama, Greece

Ιωάννου¹,

Τsantopoulos

Arabatzis

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Renewable Energy Sources are expected to play a very important role in energy production in the following years. They constitute an energy production methodology which, if properly enabled, can ensure energy sufficiency as well as the protection of the environment. Energy production from biomass in particular is a very common method, which exploits a variety of resources (wood and wood waste, agricultural crops and their by-products after cultivation, animal wastes, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and food processing wastes) for the production of energy. This paper presents a Spatial Decision Support System, which enables managers to locate the most suitable areas for biomass power plant installation. For doing this, fuzzy logic and fuzzy membership functions are used for the creation of criteria layers and suitability maps. In this paper, we use a Multicriteria Decision Analysis methodology (Analytical Hierarchy Process) combined with fuzzy system elements for the determination of the weight coefficients of the participating criteria. Then, based on the combination of fuzzy logic and theAnalytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a final proposal is created thatdivides the area into four categories regarding their suitability forsupporting a biomass energy production power plant. For the two optimal locations, the biomass is also calculated.The framework is applied to theRegional Unit of Drama, which is situated in Northern Greece and is very well known for the area's forest and agricultural production.

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“…There are some limitation for the PV installation, PV installation is effected due to slope [21]- [24], aspect [21], Direct normal irradiance or solar potential [21] [22] [25] [26], proximity to roads [26], distance to transmission lines/power lines [23] [25], sand/ dust risk [24], environmentally sensitive areas [24] [26], weather conditions [26] and many other factors like dam sites, cultural areas flood areas etc. Due to these factors only those roofs were selected during digitization for PV installation which meets the following criteria: South, south east and south west directions are best for PV installation.…”

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GIS Based Management System for Photovoltaic Panels

Luqman¹,

Ahmad²,

Khan³

et al. 2015

JGIS

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This paper provides a proposal of implementation of latest technologies in photovoltaic installation and management system. Punjab Government Cooperative Housing Society was selected to find out suitability for photovoltaic installation and its management after that. Google Earth imagery and scanned maps were selected for the preparation of spatial and attribute data of buildings in the study area by using ArcGIS software. In first stage data were digitized and suitability and potential for each building were estimated. In second stage all the tabular data which consisted of owner information, panel information, its potential and location were linked to each other for management purpose. Selected area for solar panels installation was linked to building information for query and visualization.

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GIS approach to the definition of capacity and generation ceilings of renewable energy technologies

Cited by 79 publications

References 2 publications

Site Ranking and Potential Assessment for Concentrating Solar Power in West Africa

Site Ranking and Potential Assessment for Concentrating Solar Power in West Africa

A Spatial Decision Support System Framework for the Evaluation of Biomass Energy Production Locations: Case Study in the Regional Unit of Drama, Greece

GIS Based Management System for Photovoltaic Panels

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