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| Personal Name | Caquilala, Emmanuel R. |
|---|---|
| Resource Title | Suitability investigation and techno-economic assessment of tidal energy converter deployment using MCDA-AHP method at Surigao del Norte Province |
| Date Issued | August 2023 |
| Abstract | The energy crisis in the Philippines drastically affects, and is more prevalent in the countryside with rotating power interruptions. The Department of Energy has been promoting the exploration and utilization of renewable energy as an alternative energy resource to fossil fuels as mandated in the Renewable Energy Act of 2008. Hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass are more commonly used in the country due to the established and available technologies that can generate electricity from these energy sources. Another abundant renewable energy resource across the archipelago is ocean energy. As published by the National Renewable Energy Program, the first ocean power plant to generate electricity was expected to operate by 2018. However, developments for ocean energy projects are still in the pre-development stage. Funding, availability of technology providers, COVID-19 pandemic, and actual ocean data parameters are probable causes of delayed ocean project implementation. Scarcity of actual ocean data parameters was seen as a gap when performing ocean energy resource assessment. Hence, tidal models are used to initially identify locations of potential device deployment and its indicative power capacity based on the Department of Energy's pre-identified ocean energy extraction sites. However, there are still several gaps that need to be studied further: (1) lack of resource assessments in terms of techno-economic and suitability viability, (2) no further assessment within the pre-identified locations of the Department of Energy, and (3) single device deployment assumption for energy generation. This research aimed to provide results on the mentioned gaps in energy resource assessment. It focused on extracting energy from the tidal currents using a horizontal axis tidal turbine within the Regions 8 and 13, where pre-identified sites are located as its area of interest. A unique method of determining tidal velocity was proposed and implemented in this resea |
| Degree Course | MS Energy Engineering |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | suitability investigation; techno-economic analysis; analytic hierarchy process; tidal energy |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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