Title :
Renewables for sustainable village power supply
Author :
Gutierrez-Vera, Jowe
Author_Institution :
Energia Del Siglo, Mexico City, Mexico
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;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2000. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5935-6
DOI :
10.1109/PESW.2000.850109
