Haiti power balance and energy transition: expanding access to electricity through microgrids
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2022-08-29Primeiro coorientador
Sperandio, Mauricio
Primeiro membro da banca
Parizzi, Jocemar Biasi
Segundo membro da banca
Guarda, Fernando Guilherme Kaehler
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Electricity represents an essential vector towards economic, industrial and social development; the inaccessibility to electricity in a country already constitutes a precondition
towards underdevelopment and poverty. Haiti is a developing country that suffers from
several problems in its energy matrix. The majority of the Haitian population does not
have access to electricity, especially the remote rural areas that are the main energy
exclusions; the cost of extending the urban electricity network to rural areas remains
prohibitive and unrealistic by 2030, as the network suffers from recurrent breakdowns
and is unable to meet the consumption needs of these consumers. This lack of electricity
constitutes a brake on the country’s economic and social growth. Nevertheless, due to its
geographical position, Haiti benefits from several renewable energy sources that constitute
today a sustainable and ecologically reliable alternative, allowing to increase the access to
electricity in the isolated rural areas of Haiti, while reducing the production of carbon
dioxide in our atmosphere. The objective of this dissertation is to make a comprehensive
assessment of the Haitian energy matrix and then develop sustainable energy solution
approaches that can increase access to energy in remote rural areas of Haiti, where no
electrical systems exist. Two solution approaches have been proposed in this work, firstly
to facilitate access to electrical energy, via individual isolated micro-systems, that can
reach households in rural areas that are economically unable to be connected to the
interconnected system. Secondly, to develop a hybrid photovoltaic (PV)/Diesel system
which constitutes an increasingly interesting alternative to the traditional solutions.
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