Estimación del potencial fotovoltaico en los techos de las edificaciones del campus UTPL explotando datos reales de producción anual

Abstract

Abstract:Currently, the implementation of renewable energies as production sources is increasing worldwide, as it is a type of clean technology, since it helps to reduce the use of fossil fuels as the main source of energy production. This work was developed with the objective of elaborating a methodology to estimate the photovoltaic potential of the buildings of the campus of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, taking advantage of the natural resource such as solar energy. The methodology to be used comprises six steps; tracing the footprint of the campus buildings, estimation of the roof area and orientation in space, calculation of solar radiation per area, definition of the factors that influence the photovoltaic performance and estimation of the PV on the roofs. The results obtained, showed a resulting error of 4.59 MWh/year, which is 18.04% of the PV production for the period October 2019 - October 2020 and 1.71 MWh/year which is 7.58% of the production for the year 2020 of block 1 of the central administration building in our validation data.