Providing sustainable energy to solve the energy shortage in Hormozgan province using solar power plants

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Expert in energy audit, Department of Energy and Environment, Iranian National Standard Organization, Bandar Abbas, Iran

10.22059/ses.2024.376591.1067

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The lack of energy in Hormozgan province and the need for a sustainable energy supply, especially in the hot seasons, has always been an important challenge for this province. Due to the current limitations in supplying the current 1000 Mw required energy shortage, the current procedure is to reduce consumption and planned shutdowns. This issue has caused losses to the industries of the province and is an obstacle to facilitating trade. The existence of flat and non-cultivable land as well as the suitable climate in Hormozgan province and Bandar Abbas city is a good potential for installing solar power plants and related panels. In this research, three pieces of land have been selected and the construction of this power plant has been simulated using the PVSol software, according to the technical requirements and limitations of ArcGIS. Their economic and environmental conditions have been analyzed using RETScreen software. According to the appropriate topology of the selected areas, and suitable climatic and weather conditions, the output power of the 154 Mw power plants has been estimated and the performance ratio (PR) in them is predicted to be more than 70%. It is suitable and acceptable. Also, the suitable conditions of these power plants have shown that in the case of investment, the return of the investor's cost is between 5 to 6 years, and this project is economically affordable and ultimately leads to sustainable energy production and solving the city's problem. It will be Bandar Abbas and Hormozgan province.

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Journal of sustainable Energy Systems
Volume 3, Issue 1
January 2024
Pages 23-38

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