Harnessing Offshore Wind Energy along the Mexican Coastline in the Gulf of Mexico—An Exploratory Study including Sustainability Criteria

Geovanni Hernández Galvez, Daniel Chuck Liévano, Omar Sarracino Martínez, Orlando Lastres Danguillecourt, José Rafael Dorrego Portela, Antonio Trujillo Narcía, Ricardo Saldaña Flores, Liliana Pampillón González, Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno and Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo
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Geovanni Hernández Galvez: Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa, Carretera Cárdenas-Huimanguillo km 2. Ranchería Paso y Playa, Cárdenas 86556, Tabasco, Mexico
Daniel Chuck Liévano: Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa, Carretera Cárdenas-Huimanguillo km 2. Ranchería Paso y Playa, Cárdenas 86556, Tabasco, Mexico
Omar Sarracino Martínez: Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa, Carretera Cárdenas-Huimanguillo km 2. Ranchería Paso y Playa, Cárdenas 86556, Tabasco, Mexico
Orlando Lastres Danguillecourt: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29000, Chiapas, Mexico
José Rafael Dorrego Portela: Universidad del Istmo, Campus Tehuantepec, Ciudad Universitaria S/N, Barrio Santa Cruz, 4a. Sección Sto. Domingo Tehuantepec, Tehuantepec 70760, Oaxaca, Mexico
Antonio Trujillo Narcía: Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa, Carretera Cárdenas-Huimanguillo km 2. Ranchería Paso y Playa, Cárdenas 86556, Tabasco, Mexico
Ricardo Saldaña Flores: Instituto Nacional de Electricidad y Energías Limpias, Calle Reforma #113, Col. Palmira Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca 62490, Morelos, Mexico
Liliana Pampillón González: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, División de Ciencias Biológicas, Carretera Villahermosa-Cárdenas km 0.5. S/N, Ranchería Emiliano Zapata, Villahermosa 86150, Tabasco, Mexico
Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Radiología y Medicina Física, Edificio Albert Einstein, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo: Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, UNAM, Queretaro 76230, Mexico

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-26

Abstract: Mexico has more than 40 years of researching, investing, and obtaining electric power through wind energy. Within the country, there are highly windy areas, such as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec or the state of Tamaulipas, and there are about 2500 MW installed and 70,000 MW tested, all onshore. There are still no offshore wind farms in Mexico, despite having two main coasts, the East and the West, with the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, respectively. Although the Mexican coastal states of the Gulf of Mexico are Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatán, this work focuses on the study and feasibility of offshore wind energy use on the coasts of the states of Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatán. This is because of the availability of data in that region; however, sustainability criteria that can be used in other regions are also presented. MERRA-2 and ERA5 data were used employing WAsP and Windographer software. It was found that the capacity factor in the area of Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatán is 32%, 37%, and 46%. It can be noted that, in the WF100% scenario, each of the wind farms could contribute more than 35% of the region’s electricity consumption; those of Campeche and Yucatán stand out with contributions of more than 70%.

Keywords: Mexico; wind energy; offshore; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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