TY - GEN
T1 - Mapping of Optimal Locations for the Installation of Solar Power Plants to Support the Transition of the Energy Matrix in the Galapagos Islands
AU - Bustos, Juan
AU - Gehlen, Luca Jallay
AU - Barreto-Cuesta, Valeria
AU - Hernández-Ambato, Jorge
AU - Guevara-Cabezas, Esteban
AU - Herrera-Perez, Victor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The energy demand in the Galapagos islands is mainly covered by thermal diesel-based plants (currently close to 25 MW of installed power) and with less than 10% of the demand covered by solar generation despite the fact of being located in a privileged area for this resource in the equatorial region. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the current and projected energy demand until 2050 in the Galapagos Islands. Based on this information, this paper proposes a methodology that combines several factors based on a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to determine the most suitable locations for the expected power plants (mainly focused on PV farms) to be installed in the upcoming years within the territory of the main islands (Baltra-Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Floreana, and Isabela). The results show that of around 72.85 MW of PV generation should be installed on the islands to cover the energy demand by 2050 with an equivalent area of around 102.30 ha.
AB - The energy demand in the Galapagos islands is mainly covered by thermal diesel-based plants (currently close to 25 MW of installed power) and with less than 10% of the demand covered by solar generation despite the fact of being located in a privileged area for this resource in the equatorial region. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the current and projected energy demand until 2050 in the Galapagos Islands. Based on this information, this paper proposes a methodology that combines several factors based on a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to determine the most suitable locations for the expected power plants (mainly focused on PV farms) to be installed in the upcoming years within the territory of the main islands (Baltra-Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Floreana, and Isabela). The results show that of around 72.85 MW of PV generation should be installed on the islands to cover the energy demand by 2050 with an equivalent area of around 102.30 ha.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85219166482
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-73921-7_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-73921-7_40
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85219166482
SN - 9783031739200
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 521
EP - 535
BT - ELECTRIMACS 2024 - Selected Papers
A2 - Belenguer, Enrique
A2 - Beltran, Hector
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - International Conference of the TC Electrimacs Committee, ELECTRIMACS 2024
Y2 - 27 May 2024 through 30 May 2024
ER -