Abstract
The Energetic Transition Law in Mexico has established that in the next years, the country has to produce at least 35% of its energy from clean sources in 2024. Based on this, a proposal in this study is the cogeneration between the principal thermal power plants along the Mexican states of the Gulf of Mexico with modeled wind farms near to these thermal plants with the objective to reduce peak electricity demand. These microscale models were done with hourly MERRA-2 data that included wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and atmospheric pressure with records from 1980–2018 and taking into account roughness, orography, and climatology of the site. Wind speed daily profile for each model was compared to electricity demand trajectory, and it was seen that wind speed has a peak at the same time. The amount of power delivered to the electric grid with this cogeneration in Rio Bravo and Altamira (Northeast region) is 2657.02 MW and for Tuxpan and Dos Bocas from the Eastern region is 3196.18 MW. This implies a reduction at the peak demand. In the Northeast region, the power demand at the peak is 8000 MW, and for Eastern region 7200 MW. If wind farms and thermal power plants work at the same time in Northeast and Eastern regions, the amount of power delivered by other sources of energy at this moment will be 5342.98 MW and 4003.82 MW, respectively.
Highlights
One of the world’s biggest problems is that population always is increasing and some countries have over dependence on energy generation
Along the Gulf of Mexico 142 MERRA-2 points have been assessed with wind speed information
Wind has been converted as resource along the Gulf of Mexico; this means that mainly both roughness and orography have been taken into account
Summary
One of the world’s biggest problems is that population always is increasing and some countries have over dependence on energy generation. Primary energy consumption growth averaged 2.2% in 2017, up from 1.2% last year and the fastest since 2013. This compares with the 10-year average of 1.7% per year [1]. It is known that energy supply side and demand side is essential to the correct usage of energy [3], and this is important to nations because it depends on the effectiveness of its power systems and the availability of power supply at the load centers [4]. It is important to define the concepts of load and electricity demand, on the one hand to understanding load of an electric power distribution as the final stage of Energies 2019, 12, 2330; doi:10.3390/en12122330 www.mdpi.com/journal/energies
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