TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY

Energy consumption has been increasing a lot recently because of the intensive use of energy in manufacturing processes and due to the modern lifestyle in our society. In this context, Brazilian energy sources are pretty diversified and they are mainly composed by renewable energy. A technical and e...

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Autores: de Oliveira, Ana Paula Moreira, Fuganholi, Nicola Sgrignoli, Cunha, Pedro Henrique de Souza, Barelli, Vivian Aparecida, Bunel, Maxime Philippe Michel, Novazzi, Luís Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Repositorio:The Journal of Engineering and Exact Sciences
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.ufv.br:article/2502
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufv.br/jcec/article/view/2502
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:renewable energy
wind
solar
biomass
economical evaluation
energia renovável
eólica
biomassa
análise econômica
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Sumario:Energy consumption has been increasing a lot recently because of the intensive use of energy in manufacturing processes and due to the modern lifestyle in our society. In this context, Brazilian energy sources are pretty diversified and they are mainly composed by renewable energy. A technical and economical assessment of solar, wind and biomass power generation was carried out in this work. With this aim, capital costs and generation capacities for each energy source were taken into account. Specific costs of solar generation resulted in R$0.98/kW?h, wind power were equal to R$0.12/kW?h and biomass power, obtained in a cogeneration process with sugarcane bagasse, resulted in R$0.27/kW?h. These data suggest that renewable energy is quite interesting from an economical point of view.