Dimensioning Studies for Reversible Hydro Power Plants in Portuguese Islands

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Nuno Fonseca
André Madureira
João Peças Lopes

Abstract

This work is within the scope of set of consultancy studies made for Portuguese islands. It focuses on the integration of Pumped Storage Power in isolated islands. The paper starts to address several power systems circumstances about two Portuguese islands on the energetic level. For each of these islands, an independent examination of the conditions to install a reversible hydro power plant is accomplished. Therefore, the energy volume to be stored due to excess of renewable generation and the ideal power and number of the pumps and turbines to be installed were identified and evaluated for the sake of using the produced energy surplus as to be pumped and later generated. The paper enhances the importance of storing energy in the operation of isolated and small systems with considerable amount of intermittent power resources as well as the conditions for the viability of installing new exploitations of this kind.

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Nuno Fonseca, Universidade do Porto

Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores

Faculdade de Engenharia

Universidade do Porto

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

4200-465 PORTO

Portugal

André Madureira, INESC TEC

INESC TEC - INESC Tecnologia e Ciência

Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

Edifício I

4200-465 PORTO

Portugal

João Peças Lopes, INESC TEC

INESC TEC - INESC Tecnologia e Ciência

Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

Edifício I

4200-465 PORTO

Portugal

Manuel Matos, INESC TEC

INESC TEC - INESC Tecnologia e Ciência

Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias

Edifício I

4200-465 PORTO

Portugal