The wind power of Mexico

Q. Hernández-Escobedo, F. Manzano-Agugliaro and A. Zapata-Sierra

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2010, vol. 14, issue 9, 2830-2840

Abstract: The high price of fossil fuels and the environmental damage they cause have encouraged the development of renewable energy resources, especially wind power. This work discusses the potential of wind power in Mexico, using data collected every 10Â min between 2000 and 2008 at 133 automatic weather stations around the country. The wind speed, the number of hours of wind useful for generating electricity and the potential electrical power that could be generated were estimated for each year via the modelling of a wind turbine employing a logistic curve. A linear correlation of 90.3% was seen between the mean annual wind speed and the mean annual number of hours of useful wind. Maps were constructed of the country showing mean annual wind speeds, useful hours of wind, and the electrical power that could be generated. The results show that Mexico has great wind power potential with practically the entire country enjoying more than 1700Â h of useful wind per year and the potential to generate over 2000Â kW of electrical power per year per wind turbine installed (except for the Chiapas's State). Indeed, with the exception of six states, over 5000Â kW per year could be generated by each turbine.

Keywords: Wind; speed; Hours; of; useful; wind; Electrical; power; generation; Wind; mapping; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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