Renewables for sustainable village power supply

Author

Gutierrez-Vera, Jowe

Author_Institution

Energia Del Siglo, Mexico City, Mexico

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

628

Abstract

In Mexico there are more than 80000 villages without electricity whatsoever. People living in these communities could reach 6 million inhabitants. The smallness and remoteness of these communities makes them eligible for decentralised remote power technologies such as photovoltaics (PV), thermosolar, wind, micro hydro and biomass. These technological applications may demonstrate the technical performance, economic competitiveness, operational viability and environmental benefits of a better solution for electrification of rural areas compared to conventional options such as grid extension or isolated diesel gensets mini grids. The paper discusses solar power, geothermal power, bioenergy, wind energy and micro hydro power in Mexico for rural communities

Keywords

bioenergy conversion; geothermal power; hydroelectric power; photovoltaic power systems; solar power; wind power; Mexico; PV; biomass power; decentralised remote power technologies; economic competitiveness; electrification; environmental benefits; geothermal power; micro hydro; operational viability; photovoltaics; renewable energy resources; sustainable village power supply; technical performance; thermosolar power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2000. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5935-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESW.2000.850109

Filename

850109