Estudo da viabilidade de implantação de sistemas fotovoltaicos conectados à rede em terminais e estações-tubo na cidade de Curitiba

Abstract

With the increased electric energy demand expectancy, mostly due the increasing Brazilian population and the country’s GDP growth per capita, the Brazilian strong depencency upon hydropower plants should be reduced. There is a need for the country to reorganize its energy planning, in such a way that renewable energies represent excellent options to fulfill part of the electricity generation, taking into account the principles of sustentability. In this scenario, solar photovoltaic energy stands out and in particular grid-connected photovoltaic systems, which are growing in an expressive way in Brazil. Faced with this, this work aims to study the technical feasibility for the implementation of grid-connected photovoltaic systems at bus terminals and stops (tube-stations) in the city of Curitiba. To do so, a comparison was made between the photovoltaic potential of Curitiba and the state of Paraná, between the photovoltaic potential of Curitiba and others Brazilian states and between the photovoltaic potential of Curitiba and Europe, region with the largest installed gridconnected photovoltaic systems capacity in the world. Besides that, the Santa Cândida terminal and the Marechal Floriano tube-station have been selected for the realization of a preliminary grid-connected photovoltaic system project. Through this work, it is concluded that the implementation of grid-connected photovoltaic systems at bus terminals and stops (tube-stations) in the city of Curitiba is technically viable.