Cuban researchers have recognized 21 areas within the nation with favorable circumstances for the set up of wind farms. These areas are primarily positioned on the north-central-eastern coast, from the provinces of Camagüey to Holguín, within the south of the japanese area and within the westernmost southern portion of Pinar del Río province.
Alfredo Rodríguez, coordinator of the Renewable Vitality Sources Group of the Institute of Meteorology, identified that the technically installable potential for electrical energy era from wind in Cuba is roughly 1,100 MW.
Dr. Conrado Moreno, professor on the Heart for the Research of Renewable Vitality Applied sciences on the José Antonio Echeverría Technological College of Havana, famous that the unfavorable financial situation that Cuba is dealing with calls for viable choices to benefit from wind vitality. On this sense, the knowledgeable highlighted the comfort of utilizing medium-power wind generators as a substitute of planning the development of enormous wind farms within the proximate future. “After I discuss the sort of wind turbine, I’m referring to these whose energy varies between 100 and 1,000 kilowatts [kW],” he defined.
Dr. Moreno mentioned all wind generators positioned in Cuba are categorised within the medium-power vary, and the most important positioned within the nationwide territory are 850 kW, within the Gibara 1 Wind Farm, in Holguín province. However the gear deliberate for set up for the longer term Herradura 1 and Herradura 2 parks, in Las Tunas province, can be of 1,500 kW and a couple of,500 kW, respectively. Between the 2 Herradura farms, there can be 54 machines, which constitutes, as a consequence of its dimensions, an unprecedented undertaking in Cuba, however which faces numerous obstacles within the subject of financing and materials sources for its completion, he added.
Dr. Moreno asserted that medium-power wind generators, as a consequence of their technical traits, will be simply built-in into quite a lot of era tasks with renewable vitality, self-consumption, and distributed era, with enough wind circumstances. The aforementioned wind generators are straightforward to put in, function, transport, and keep; trigger much less environmental and visible influence than giant machines; and, above all, occupy little house.
Presently, there are 4 experimental wind farms put in with a complete energy of 11.8 MW. Of those, these put in within the north of Holguín (9.6 MW) province have reached an annual capability issue larger than 27%.
At current, two wind farms (Herradura 1 and Herradura 2) have begun development within the province of Las Tunas, for a complete energy of 101 MW (Determine 1), whereas a 3rd wind farm (Rio Seco) is beneath preparation within the province of Holguín, with 50 MW, all via the modality of Authorities Credit score.
—Amaury Pérez Sánchez ([email protected]) is a chemical engineer primarily based in Cuba with the College of Camagüey.
