Análise econômica de substituição de uma central termelétrica por uma planta eólica.

Abstract

Due to climatic factors such as water crises and emission of pollutants by thermoelectric plants, renewable sources have a growing participation in the composition of the Brazilian energy matrix. The main exponent of these sources is wind power. However, wind generation presents limitations in relation to the more traditional vectors such as thermoelectric generators, such as response capacity in generation, due to an instantaneous change in load and costs for implementation. Due to these disadvantages, the present work models two power plants, a wind power plant and a thermoelectric plant, comparing them, detecting at what point the investment of a wind farm becomes economically viable in relation to a thermoelectric plant due to cost bias. To do so, the modeling is done from measured wind speed data in loco and computational tools such as the WindPRO software.