Energy and hydrology modelling of hydropower in Chile
(2021) In TVVR 21/5005 VVRM01 20201Division of Water Resources Engineering
- Abstract
- Chile is one of the countries in South American working to achieve energy
independence by introducing renewables energy to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions from conventional energy sources. Chile has a variety of water
resources from the North to the South, where most of these resources are
comprehended by short rivers that are exploited to produce hydro-electric
power.
Chile has a huge number of power plants on a small scale and large scale,
however, this project focus on plants with an installed capacity of 20 MW and
above where, there are approximately about 36 hydropower plants in Chile.
The total installed capacity for Chile is estimated at 7,055 MW and the total
energy generation about 20.8 TWh.
This master thesis was... (More) - Chile is one of the countries in South American working to achieve energy
independence by introducing renewables energy to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions from conventional energy sources. Chile has a variety of water
resources from the North to the South, where most of these resources are
comprehended by short rivers that are exploited to produce hydro-electric
power.
Chile has a huge number of power plants on a small scale and large scale,
however, this project focus on plants with an installed capacity of 20 MW and
above where, there are approximately about 36 hydropower plants in Chile.
The total installed capacity for Chile is estimated at 7,055 MW and the total
energy generation about 20.8 TWh.
This master thesis was made in collaboration with the company Refinitiv. In
the study, it is investigated whether the conditions qualify for adapting the
Scania-HBV model for Chile, this model has been used to simulate the natural
energy inflow to the hydropower plants in Chile.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the model and its adaptation for the
forecasting of hydropower production and prices on the energy market in
Chile. This project faced some limitations as the natural energy inflow was the
target data used for calibration of the model but no information about inflow
data series is found so the generation data is used instead, still giving results.
The final Model result was satisfying calibration and validation where it
showed weekly r
2
0.6, monthly 0.66 in calibration, and 0.18, monthly 0.4 in
5
the validation. The conclusion of the model is reliable and probably useful to
predict future hydropower production in Chile (Less) - Popular Abstract
- Chile is one of the countries in South American working to achieve energy
independence by introducing renewables energy to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions from conventional energy sources. Chile has a variety of water
resources from the North to the South, where most of these resources are
comprehended by short rivers that are exploited to produce hydro-electric
power.
Chile has a huge number of power plants on a small scale and large scale,
however, this project focus on plants with an installed capacity of 20 MW and
above where, there are approximately about 36 hydropower plants in Chile.
The total installed capacity for Chile is estimated at 7,055 MW and the total
energy generation about 20.8 TWh.
This master thesis was... (More) - Chile is one of the countries in South American working to achieve energy
independence by introducing renewables energy to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions from conventional energy sources. Chile has a variety of water
resources from the North to the South, where most of these resources are
comprehended by short rivers that are exploited to produce hydro-electric
power.
Chile has a huge number of power plants on a small scale and large scale,
however, this project focus on plants with an installed capacity of 20 MW and
above where, there are approximately about 36 hydropower plants in Chile.
The total installed capacity for Chile is estimated at 7,055 MW and the total
energy generation about 20.8 TWh.
This master thesis was made in collaboration with the company Refinitiv. In
the study, it is investigated whether the conditions qualify for adapting the
Scania-HBV model for Chile, this model has been used to simulate the natural
energy inflow to the hydropower plants in Chile.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the model and its adaptation for the
forecasting of hydropower production and prices on the energy market in
Chile. This project faced some limitations as the natural energy inflow was the
target data used for calibration of the model but no information about inflow
data series is found so the generation data is used instead, still giving results.
The final Model result was satisfying calibration and validation where it
showed weekly r
2
0.6, monthly 0.66 in calibration, and 0.18, monthly 0.4 in
5
the validation. The conclusion of the model is reliable and probably useful to
predict future hydropower production in Chile (Less)
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- author
- Al-Qaragholi, Sally Abdulghani A LU
- supervisor
-
- Rolf Larsson LU
- organization
- course
- VVRM01 20201
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Energy, Hydropower plant, HBV model, energy market in Chile.
- publication/series
- TVVR 21/5005
- report number
- 21/5005
- ISSN
- 1101-9824
- language
- English
- additional info
- Examiner: Magnus Persson
- id
- 9042525
- date added to LUP
- 2021-04-06 10:23:19
- date last changed
- 2021-04-06 10:23:19
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abstract = {{Chile is one of the countries in South American working to achieve energy
independence by introducing renewables energy to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions from conventional energy sources. Chile has a variety of water
resources from the North to the South, where most of these resources are
comprehended by short rivers that are exploited to produce hydro-electric
power.
Chile has a huge number of power plants on a small scale and large scale,
however, this project focus on plants with an installed capacity of 20 MW and
above where, there are approximately about 36 hydropower plants in Chile.
The total installed capacity for Chile is estimated at 7,055 MW and the total
energy generation about 20.8 TWh.
This master thesis was made in collaboration with the company Refinitiv. In
the study, it is investigated whether the conditions qualify for adapting the
Scania-HBV model for Chile, this model has been used to simulate the natural
energy inflow to the hydropower plants in Chile.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the model and its adaptation for the
forecasting of hydropower production and prices on the energy market in
Chile. This project faced some limitations as the natural energy inflow was the
target data used for calibration of the model but no information about inflow
data series is found so the generation data is used instead, still giving results.
The final Model result was satisfying calibration and validation where it
showed weekly r
2
0.6, monthly 0.66 in calibration, and 0.18, monthly 0.4 in
5
the validation. The conclusion of the model is reliable and probably useful to
predict future hydropower production in Chile}},
author = {{Al-Qaragholi, Sally Abdulghani A}},
issn = {{1101-9824}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{TVVR 21/5005}},
title = {{Energy and hydrology modelling of hydropower in Chile}},
year = {{2021}},
}