Análise de dados de radiação solar na região de Curitiba para aproveitamento energético

Abstract

Electrical power is widely present in modern life, making it more confortable, secure, practical, being a marker of technological development. Together with the economic growth of many countries, energy demand rises constantly and, with said increase, the search for sustainable power generation alternatives follows. However, lots of nations don’t have accurate environmental data of its territories, prohibiting them from precise studies on their renewable power generation potential. In Brazil, the National Institute on Space Research (INPE), has environmental data collection programs with the goal of studying the country’s renewable energy capacity. One of the Institute’s programs is the recently created National System of Environmental Data Organization (SONDA). The project has solarimetric stations throghout the nation and has the objective of gathering data for solar and wind resource studies within Brazil. In doing so, the country’s engineers can plan on how to better use them. This thesis, as it’s objective, seeks to process and study data collected on project SONDA’s partner solarimetric base, located at the Technological Institute of Parana (TECPAR), which has delivered to the authors it’s data on Curitiba’s solar radiation in a timeframe of 20 months. The study of these ground based measurements is important, allowing comparisons with computer methods data from INPE for the same region. At the end, it is possible to check if INPE’s data can be backed by TECPAR’s. And besides that, with the data, the solar generation potential of Curitiba can be found, with the purpose of making the city more sustainable and less dependent on faraway generated power, as it happens today. Also a comparison between Curitiba and other cities and countries, where fotovoltaic generation is in widespread use, is presented.