Current Situation and Prospects of Renewable Energy Sources in Cuba
Over the latest years,Cuba”s electricity industry has undertaken relevant reforms.By 2005 the Government of Cuba designed an energy development strategy known as Energy Revolution in Cuba.Distributed generation,electric grid rehabilitation,energy saving,energy education and the growing use of renewable energy sources become the spinal column of this strategy.The Cuban strategy of developing the National Electric System establishes the tendency to decrease the share of thermal power plants burning oil.Such as other regions of the area,the country not yet possesses the necessary sources of fossil fuels for its subsistence but if it is rich in renewable energy resources.In Cuba,it constitutes a necessity to increase the use of all the types of renewable sources of energy and at the same time to elevate the energy efficiency of the facilities.The reasons are of different nature: to reduce the dependence of the country of the import fossil fuels what is very related with the energy sovereignty,to diminish the costs of the energy production due to effect of the high prices of the fossil fuels,the high costs of the energy that it is distributed the users to achieve a more efficient national economy and to diminish the negative effects on the environment caused by the use of the fossil fuels among other causes.The renewable energy sources which appear in the Cuban archipelago and have an application currently are: the wind energy,the thermal and photovoltaic solar energy,the small wind turbines and the biomass as energy source fundamentally the sugar cane wastes.Among the renewable energy (RE) sources in the country,wind energy is considered as the most dynamic source in the first years of this new strategic design.In the last years,wind energy has been the RE source with major growth,from 2,1 MW in 2007 t0 11,7 MW in 2010.Currently a wind park of 50 MW is in stage of implementation.Other renewable energies possess ambitious plans for the near future such as photovoltaic connected to the grid,the sugar cane biomass and the small hydro.The purpose of this work is to give a panoramic of the current situation of these renewable energy technologies in exploitation and the perspective of each one of them,the laws that govern in the country supporting the use of the renewable energy in these moments and the productive chain of the Cuban industry.
Renewable energy sources Policy Stragety
Conrado Moreno Figueredo
Centro de Estudio de Tecnologías Energéticas Renovables(CETER)Calle 114 nr 11901,CUJAE,Marianao 12900 Havana,Cuba
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2014-04-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）