According
to the first Quarter 2012 AWEA Report, Ohio has 112 MW of wind power,
309 MW under construction, and 3683 'in queue' (whatever that means).
So we are just starting to attack our goal of 1700 MW by 2024 (see
calculation below).
Our 419 MW is capable of producing only 0.7 percent of Ohio's
electricity.
Calculation
Eo
= Ohio's annual electricity consumption = 144*10^6 Mwh
80
% of Eo is provided by investor-owned utilities (IOU)
Legislation
(127-SB221) requires about a 25 % reduction of IOU production by
conservation.
Therefore
the SB221 base line energy is 0.6 Eo
Furthermore
only our in-state electricity-production goal in 2024 is only 1/16 of
the base line.
0.8*0.75/16
= 0.0375*Eo = renewable goal.
For
purposes of estimating assume only 80% of renewables will be wind.
Wind goal = Ew = 0.03*Eo
Now:
Ew = Pw*cf*h, where cf is the capacity factor, assumed to be 0.3 and
h is the hours per year = 8760.
Putting
this all together, we expect to have about 1700 MW of wind power.
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