Avaliação do potencial eólico urbano para micro e minigeração distribuída na cidade de Ponta Grossa

Abstract

Wind energy is a crucial and significant part of the Brazilian Electricity Matrix, so much so that investments in the sector have made it the second largest source of energy used in the country. On the other hand, when compared to other sources such as solar energy, its use for small-scale generation by the population is still very little widespread, with some of the probable causes being the lack of knowledge about devices of this capacity, their cost-benefit and scarcity of local wind data, especially in urban areas. The objective of this study is to identify, through the collection of these data, the local wind profile and the wind potential of a Small Wind Turbine in the Distributed Generation model when installed on the top of a residential building. After collecting and processing the data, an estimate was made of the energy generated by specific wind turbine models selected during the study, so that the results indicated characteristics of the wind profile in the region and corroborated the hypothesis of economic viability of implementing these systems.