Event Details
Modeling of the Potential for Electricity Services from Wind and Solar Resources in the United States
Presenter: Murray Love - Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: Wed, February 26, 2003
Time: 14:30:00 - 16:00:00
Place: EOW 230
ABSTRACT
Renewable energy technologies such as solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines are making up a small but increasing fraction of the electricity supply system, and many predict that they will eventually come to dominate the world's energy systems. However, there have been to date few quantitative assessments of the performance of solar and wind technologies in meeting the large-scale electricity demands of an industrial society such as the United States. Most estimates of the scale and performance of renewable systems have relied on aggregated electricity demand data and/or climatic averages, and so are unable to take into account hourly, diurnal, and seasonal imbalances between solar and wind fluxes and electricity demand.
The IESVic Energy System Model uses historical hourly climatic and electrical demand data to determine the scale of renewable plant required to meet the entire US electrical demand over ten years, and to specify the size and type of energy storage required to compensate for the intermittent nature of renewable fluxes. Results will be presented for both solar and wind technologies, for a variety of locations within the continental United States, and will be compared to some of the more well known estimates of the scale of renewable technologies.
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For Further Information Please Contact: Murray Love (721-8923)