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Assignment No 1 - RET
Assignment No 1 - RET
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?
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
.
Iii SOLAR PV
The insta/led
Capacity of Solar PV
power in Spain goes on and on .
With
Updated data ,
On 1st
January ,
the instalkd
pnhotovoltaic Capacity was 11847,2MW which ,
Mears
that 1244,5 MW have been instaled so far in 2021 .
'
Carbon
Trading
'
of permits to based
-
or the
trading pollute -
is a market
unfair
approach to
recwcing Carbon emission that is deeply inefficiert and .
of climate action .
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
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 .
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
E
F. LE
%÷g → c.
-
pu
>
cp.IT
=