Estudio de la aplicación de generación distribuida con fuentes renovables de energía en la comunidad de Molleturo

Abstract

This project is based on the study of natural resources around the Molleturo parish in order to analyze the possible generation of electrical energy based on the use of renewable energy. This community is supplied with electrical energy through feeder 0527, which originates from substation 05 belonging to the Empresa Eléctrica Regional Centro Sur and crosses ¨El Cajas National Park¨ and for the most part follows the Cuenca - Molleturo road. This feeder has quality indices that exceed the limits allowed by the established regulatory standards, so the income from distributed generation is a great help to improve its operation by providing a better service to the Molleturo community.

The main objectives of this work were to dimension the amount of power that could be obtained through distributed generation based on available natural resources such as water, wind and radiation. To achieve this, it was necessary to analyze the places with the greatest amount of natural resources and a good location that allows defining the best options in which they do not produce an environmental impact to ¨El Cajas National Park¨. In the same way, the existing natural resources were determined through data collection models or simulator programs such as Homer and RETScreen, because there are no measurement stations in nearby places or in a place of interest, with the acquired data were dimensioned Hydroelectric, wind and photovoltaic generation plants.

With the results obtained was determined the most viable generation source among those analyzed, thus reaching the conclusion that the mini hydroelectric power plant meets expectations in the environmental, technical and economic field in relation to the others and at the same time it is capable of supply energy to the community of Molleturo and others.