Energy planning in the Santa Ana Canton of the Manabí province

Abstract

The accelerated increase in the demand for energy due to development and population growth involves increasing demands on resources. The diversity of typologies of the metropolis, reference to resources, requests, architectural conditions, infrastructure, or density, make a specific study important. The objective is to determine the most appropriate technology to be installed in the mode of distributed generation with renewable energy sources, the use of the geographic information system and qualitative and quantitative analysis was applied as a methodology. In the work, certain reference resources are identified for the organization process that would allow the selection of the most correct technology for the Santa Ana Canton in the province of Manabí, where the environmental resources that are sustained to make investments taking advantage of other types of clean energy were valued because the resource is the component with the most monumental preponderance, followed by economic conditions; On the other hand, it is detected that points of the environment such as climate change, eutrophication or acidification, are the least incidents, quick to choose technologies.