Wind Power Cogeneration to Reduce Peak Electricity Demand in Mexican States Along the Gulf of Mexico

Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo, Javier Garrido, Fernando Rueda-Martinez, Gerardo Alcalá and Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno
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Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo: Faculty of Engineering, Campus Coatzacoalcos, Universidad Veracruzana Mexico, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz 96535, Mexico
Javier Garrido: Faculty of Engineering, Campus Coatzacoalcos, Universidad Veracruzana Mexico, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz 96535, Mexico
Fernando Rueda-Martinez: Faculty of Engineering, Campus Coatzacoalcos, Universidad Veracruzana Mexico, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz 96535, Mexico
Gerardo Alcalá: Centro de Investigación en Recursos Energéticos y Sustentables, Universidad Veracruzana Mexico; Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz 96535, Mexico
Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Córdoba, ceiA3, Campus de Rabanales, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-22

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.

Keywords: wind farm; thermal power plants; peak electricity demand; Gulf of Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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