Features of fully integrated renewable energy atlas for Pakistan; wind, solar and cooling

Ashfaq, Asad; Ianakiev, Anton

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.08.011

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“…In addition, the best wind and solar power combination shows that 95% of wind power and 5% of solar power generation result in the lowest power shortage. The climatic conditions and geographic location of the country do provide a high solar energy potential, which means that solar energy resource assessments are needed for the planning of solar energy projects [24][25][26]. Solar energy might be an alternative means of producing electricity, but the country lacks modern solar technology.…”

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An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

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Background: This study explores the electricity access to rural and urban populations and its impact on the economic growth in Pakistan. Methods: An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach was applied, and a co-integration test was used to investigate the dynamic causality relationships between the study variables. By using this testing approach, this study filled the literature gap regarding the access of rural and urban population to electricity in Pakistan. Results: The tests shed light on the long-run relationship among the variables, whereas the results revealed that the access of both rural and urban populations to electricity had a positive and significant effect on economic growth. Conclusions: According to these findings, we can conclude that Pakistan should pay further attention to increasing its electricity production from different sources, including not only hydroelectric, solar, wind, oil, gas, and biomass but also fewer and fewer nuclear sources, in order to fulfill the country's demands on its way to a future of sustainable development.

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An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

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“…• the energy atlas, which evaluates the distribution of energy consumption using, for example, energy performance certificates, and analyzes the renovation level of buildings [14], points out the potentials energy savings [15,16]; • the energy atlas, which calculates the energy that can be produced from the available renewable energy sources (i.e. wind and solar PV and thermal collectors) [17,18]. Therefore, an energy atlas should be a platform that plays a significant role in the planning of sustainable and smart energy systems at a territorial level, and which gives information on the analysis of aggregated energy consumptions rather than that of an individual building-level [18].…”

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An Urban Energy Atlas and Engineering Model for Resilient Cities

Mutani¹,

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2019

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Increasing energy efficiency in buildings is a crucial topic, especially in those EU countries where almost 50% of the final energy consumption is used for space heating and cooling, of which 80% is used for buildings. This study presents a model and a tool that can be used to evaluate energy consumption and to identify retrofitting strategies and renewable energy sources with the aim of reaching energy and climate targets in order to improve energy security, competitiveness and sustainability in a territory. In a previous research, a 'top-down engineering' model was applied for a number of 1 km 2 districts in the city of Turin (IT) to evaluate the residual potential of buildings that could be connected to the district heating network. In this work, the energy-use model has been improved by considering applications to urban areas of different dimensions, and an urban energy atlas for the Turin building stock has been defined with the support of a Geographical Information System. The model has been validated by comparing the results of an energy balance calculation with energy consumption data of three consecutive heating seasons over an area of about 40 km 2 in which 500,000 inhabitants live.

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“…Such a large potential might be utilized to satisfy the native power shortage within the country. The high power scenario in Karachi like alternative apart but still the country is additionally terribly energy poor [16][17][18][19].…”

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“…Foremost of those is that the quantity of irradiation falling on the surface of the PV modules, that successively depends on the climate. If irradiation were the sole parameter influencing of power output [19][20][21][22][23][24][25].…”

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Wind and Solar Energy Resources Potential across Coastal Mega Cities, of Pakistan

2019

IJRTE

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Pakistan has the vast potential of renewable energy (RE) resources but still, rely on the pricy fossil fuel-based power generation. The developed nation work on the shifting of conventional resources based generation into renewable energy-based generation, but Pakistan still engages to negotiate fossil fuel trade. However, Pakistan has 1100Km of the coastal belt that acquires the huge potential of RE. The different metrological department measure the RE exists in Pakistan, the World Bank Group is one of them. The World Bank group observe the solar and wind potential across the megacity of Pakistan including Karachi. In this research, we have explored the World Bank efforts by highlighting the availability of the solar and wind power across coastal megacity, of Pakistan. The main focus is on the estimates of global horizontal irradiation (GHI) parameter of solar and wind speed for wind resources along with the yearly values provided by the World Bank. The wind power depend on wind speed across so, in this research, the wind speed is observed across the coastal megacity of Pakistan for the wind turbine installation. The wind speed data is occupied from the World Bank site to explore wind model for the future power supply across Karachi of Pakistan. Similarly, the solar irradiation calculation is very much important to install solar models. So we have select the GHI for the solar observation across Karachi of Pakistan. The GHI data is taken from the World Bank site and exploring on excel to find the future power generation across coastal megacity of Pakistan. Both wind speed and GHI parameter are observed by a yearly basis. It is detected that the regular trend for each of the selected years is related to the next year so the perceived trend of GHI and wind speed is valid for the upcoming year. Hence the GHI and wind speed availability indicate the installation of solar penal and wind turbine for the power generation across the coastal megacity of Pakistan. The GHI and wind speed experimental data for the coastal megacity contain a huge amount of solar and wind potential. The planner needs to explore this energy by installing a suitable quantity of the solar plant and windmills for power generation.

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Features of fully integrated renewable energy atlas for Pakistan; wind, solar and cooling

Cited by 61 publications

References 62 publications

An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

An Urban Energy Atlas and Engineering Model for Resilient Cities

Wind and Solar Energy Resources Potential across Coastal Mega Cities, of Pakistan

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