Proposal of 100% renewable energy production for the City of Cuenca- Ecuador by 2050

Daniel Icaza, David Borge-Diez and Santiago Pulla Galindo

Renewable Energy, 2021, vol. 170, issue C, 1324-1341

Abstract: This research presents a scenario for a 100% renewable energy system for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador, with a projection to the year 2050. The transition process starts with Ecuador’s change in the productive matrix with reforms from the legal and business strategies point of view to the year 2050. Advances in energy material are dependent on political uncertainty both at the country (Ecuador) and local (Cuenca) levels. It is possible to stop using fossil fuels due to the implementation of new renewable energy sources, potentially rich in the Ecuadorian Southwest and evidenced in the National Plan for a Lifetime. Currently, there is evidence of accelerated changes concerning legal regulations, including the construction of several electric power generation plants. This change in the national productive matrix implies, among others, the implementation of electric vehicles and the change of natural gas stoves for electric ones, and the implementation of the “4 Rios” tram that crosses the city from North-South and South-North, incorporating 100% renewable energy generation, which would provide heat in urban and marginal urban areas. All the systems created in Ecuador, such as heating, cooling, transportation, security etc., will allow an increasing penetration of renewable energy until it reaches 100%.

Keywords: Renewable energy; EnergyPLAN; Clean energy; Primary energy; Smart cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.02.067

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