Wave resource in El Hierro—an island towards energy self-sufficiency

Iglesias, G.; Carballo, R.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2010.08.021

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“…Del mismo modo, los impactos físicos han sido uno de los temas más recurrentes cuando se abordan estudios relacionados con las Reservas de la Biosfera, tratándose desde muy diversas perspectivas, como por ejemplo impactos sobre la flora, la fauna, el cambio climático, la disminución de los recursos hídricos (Duffy, 2001;Ngana, 2003;Byers, 2007;Ainz Ibarrondo, 2008;kerbiriou, 2008;Chettri, 2010;Ormaetxea, 2010;Huzui, 2012;Sánchez, 2013;Vidal y Rendón-Salinas, 2014). En especial, dadas las características de fragmentación territorial que presentan las islas y los problemas que ello conlleva desde el punto de vista del abastecimiento energético, sobre todo en islas con la condición de Reservas de la Biosfera, han proliferado estudios relacionados con las energías alternativas, en aras de disminuir los impactos que provoca tal actividad de modo tradicional, revalorizando el medio ambiente en estos espacios (Iglesias y Carballo, 2011;Sierra, 2013;Veigas y Iglesias, 2014).…”

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El impacto del turismo de masas en las Islas Canarias en el contexto de las reservas mundiales de la biosfera

Luís

Morales

Torres

et al. 2017

turismo

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Canarias es uno de los destinos turísticos principales de Europa. El Archipiélago recibió en 2015 más de 13 millones de turistas y todo ello en un territorio muy limitado (7.4 mil km2 y una población de 2.1 millones). Las dimensiones de estas cifras adquieren relevancia en un contexto donde el 63 % de la superficie de las Islas ha sido declarada Reserva Mundial de la Biosfera. Se estudia aquí pues, el impacto del turismo –así como algunas alternativas en aras de paliar dicho impacto–, en las cinco islas que han sido declaradas en su integridad como tales, partiendo de sus particularidades.

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El impacto del turismo de masas en las Islas Canarias en el contexto de las reservas mundiales de la biosfera

Luís

Morales

Torres

et al. 2017

turismo

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“…El Hierro island is a UNESCO Biosphere reserve, and aims to become a 100% carbon-free island [32]. Among the projects considered is this combined wind and pumped storage power plant, which aspires to provide all electrical energy needs of this island from wind power.…”

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Increasing wind power penetration in autonomous power systems through no-flow operation of Pelton turbines

Platero

Nicolet²,

Sánchez

et al. 2014

Renewable Energy

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a b s t r a c tThe integration of wind power in power systems results in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, it has a positive environmental impact. However, the operation of these power systems becomes increasingly complex, owing mainly to random behaviour of the wind.In the case of island power systems, this problem is even more difficult. The traditional solution is to use diesel generators as an alternative power supply. For a wind-only power supply, an energy storage system is required. If the topography of the island makes possible the use of pumped storage hydropower plants, this is, nowadays, the most suitable energy storage system. This paper presents a novel method of Pelton turbine operation with no water flow, as a way to provide fast power injection in the case of an abrupt wind power decrease, or a wind-generator trip. This operation mode allows maximizing wind power penetration in a reliable and efficient way. This method has been validated by computer simulations, and will be tested during the commissioning of a combined wind-pumped storage power plant in an autonomous power system, on a small island.

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“…The use of numerical models to assess ocean wave power has been widely adopted on both regional [8][9][10][11] and global scales [12][13][14][15] and has been implemented for several islands, including the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean [16][17][18][19], Hawaii and Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean [20][21][22][23], Fuerte Island in the Caribbean Sea [24], and Sardinia and Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea [25][26][27].…”

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Identifying the Optimal Offshore Areas for Wave Energy Converter Deployments in Taiwanese Waters Based on 12-Year Model Hindcasts

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Abstract:A 12-year sea-state hindcast for Taiwanese waters, covering the period from 2005 to 2016, was conducted using a fully coupled tide-surge-wave model. The hindcasts of significant wave height and peak period were employed to estimate the wave power resources in the waters surrounding Taiwan. Numerical simulations based on unstructured grids were converted to structured grids with a resolution of 25 × 25 km. The spatial distribution maps of offshore annual mean wave power were created for each year and for the 12-year period. Waters with higher wave power density were observed off the northern, northeastern, southeastern (south of Green Island and southeast of Lanyu) and southern coasts of Taiwan. Five energetic sea areas with spatial average annual total wave energy density of 60-90 MWh/m were selected for further analysis. The 25 × 25 km square grids were then downscaled to resolutions of 5 × 5 km, and five 5 × 5 km optimal areas were identified for wave energy converter deployments. The spatial average annual total wave energy yields at the five optimal areas (S1)-(S5) were estimated to be 64.3, 84.1, 84.5, 111.0 and 99.3 MWh/m, respectively. The prevailing wave directions for these five areas lie between east and northeast.

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Wave resource in El Hierro—an island towards energy self-sufficiency

Cited by 134 publications

References 34 publications

El impacto del turismo de masas en las Islas Canarias en el contexto de las reservas mundiales de la biosfera

El impacto del turismo de masas en las Islas Canarias en el contexto de las reservas mundiales de la biosfera

Increasing wind power penetration in autonomous power systems through no-flow operation of Pelton turbines

Identifying the Optimal Offshore Areas for Wave Energy Converter Deployments in Taiwanese Waters Based on 12-Year Model Hindcasts

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