ÁLVARO CRUZ DE LEÓN

Renewable Energy Technologies – IS-FEE 10062W

Assignment No. 1

Question No. 1
List the installed capacity of the following renewable energy in your country.
i) Hydropower,
ii) Wind power, and
iii) Solar PV

Question No. 2
Briefly explain ‘Carbon Trading’.

Question No. 3
What is the name of the largest hydropower plant in your country? What type of turbine is used in
that plant?

Question No. 4
Find out the energy conversion efficiencies of various renewable energy sources and compare
them with any one of the conventional energy sources. Draw conclusions.

Question No. 5
For an onshore wind turbine, the following details are provided:
Wind speed, v = 15 m/sec, Air density, ρ = 1.225 kg/m3
Power Coefficient, Cp = 0.30

In order to produce a total power of 3.5 MW, what should be the length of the turbine blade?

Submission due date:

Dec 3, 2021 by 03:30 PM

In-person or Email
Room WE-257, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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HYDROPOWER
HistoricaUy , of hydropower in Spain has been increasing but in recent gears
the evolution ,

it has experienced a Significant decrease in its contribution to total eléctricity production ,

other renewable
energies have been introduce d
into the
as
energy mix .

However ,
it still Continues to be One of the uuost productiva renovables aLong with Wind energy , .

1-
hydropower energy has an instalkd
Capacity of 17,792 MW in Spain which representa 19,5%
,

of the total .

ii WIND POWER
1,720 MW of Wind power were instaMed in Spain in 2020 ( 2,243 MW ir 2019 and 393MW
) This gives acumulativa figure of 27,446MW
in 2018 .
,
making Spain the Second European
Country in Terms of installed Wind power Capacity after ,
Germany Wind power contributed
.

21,9% of the electricity consume d in our Country in 2020

Being the Second technology in the ,

Mix In terms of renewable

.

generation it produced 49,7% of the total followed by hydro

, ,

( 27,7%) and solar photovoltaic (1318%) .

Iii SOLAR PV
The insta/led
Capacity of Solar PV
power in Spain goes on and on .
With
Updated data ,

photovoltaic Capacity has Connected to

exceeded 13,000MW the
grid Specifically
.
,
the

figure reactores 13091,7MW .

On 1st
January ,
the instalkd
pnhotovoltaic Capacity was 11847,2MW which ,
Mears
that 1244,5 MW have been instaled so far in 2021 .
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Carbon
Trading
'

of permits to based
-

or the
trading pollute -
is a market
unfair
approach to
recwcing Carbon emission that is deeply inefficiert and .

Attempting to Turn Carbon from the atmosphere into a

privalised commodity has
created markets susceptible to corporate pressure diverted attention from the systemic
,

Changes needed to Covert our economics and inflicted injusticias os

,
marginalised
Communities in the North who are trdpped in the most polluted áreas and peasant
Communities in the South who are dispossessed of Land and Livehoods in the name

of climate action .

Iberdrola's hydro power plant in Cortes de Pallás (Valencia) is the

largest punped Storage -

the Júcar river and thanks to

power plant in Europe It's located on .
,
the
Commissioners
of four reversible groups instale d in the Cavern to tahe
advantage of the 500 metes differerce
in Level between the La Muela reservoir and the Cortes de Pallis reservoir ,
the plant increased
its 630 MW of power to 1750 MW ir twbination and 1280 MW ir
pumping .

The plant capacble of producirg annual demando f

is 16256Wh and meeting the almost
400000 honres .

The
plant has four groups of reversible turbinas Inside a Cavern that allan it to tahe

aduantage of the 500 metes differerce in Level between the artificial Reservoir of la Muela
and the Cortes de Pallis reservoir to produce electricity .

CORTES LA MUELA
When wearing the question of which is more efficiat there are several
aus
energy ,

thíngs to consider .
The first is to under Stand what
efficiency means .
Efficiency is
For what inter ested this Case
achieving the objetiva in the best possible way .
we are
"
in

( gene rating energy) it would be to do so at the toWest possible cost

"

One of the mostaccurate Ways to check which energy is more effiúat is to see
what
percertage of the energy input is converted into electriáty that we can use .

However that input or the amount of energy needed to create electniity should not just be
, , ,

from fuel As we have discossed it should also talk into avant other costs such as
.

, ,

environmental
remediating damage .

So The peketage
we
✓ etain
meuswe
when
efficiency as : of the
energy in the fuel that we

we convertitinto electricity .

In addition , it takes into account the other and to it's

important factor s , according
result and
comparing the two types of energy we have, we can affirm that
renewable energias are noch more efficiert than Conventional energie because they are the ,

Energie with the highest percata ge of energy retation because they are the cores ,

that
produce Less environmental damage etc ,
.

Pw
P =
Ip Av
>

Cp ☐ A =
2-
=
2- 3,5M
= 5643,74 m2
P v3 Cp
w ?
1225.15 0,3

A IT La
=
. ☐ L =
A =
5643,74 = 42,38 m
µ IT

Length of the turbine blade for 3,5MW of total power is 42,38m .

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