Coal-dependent states with renewable energy potential — Wyoming's abundant wind resources, for example — should adopt policies that will stimulate their development, such as renewable portfolio standards that obligate utilities to procure a portion of their electricity supply from renewable resources.
(For example, in the South, where wind resources are scarce, there's not much momentum for a renewable-energy mandate).
As one of the most important renewable energy resources, wind power has drawn much attention in recent years.
Though wind is only the sporadic source of energy which can represent a reliable energy resource from a long-term energy policy among the diverse renewable energy resources, wind energy is one of the most admired energy resources around the globe.
To allow a real penetration of the huge dispersed naturally renewable resources (wind, sun, etc.) intermittent and more or less easily predictable, optimal sizing of hybrid renewable power generation systems prove to be essential.
To allow a real penetration of the huge dispersed naturally renewable resources (wind, sun, etc).
To address the uncertainties in renewable resources (wind speed and solar irradiance), an innovative method is proposed which is based on Chance Constrained Programming (CCP).
Orama-Exclusa: A couple of our researchers studied that question, and they discovered that we have enough renewable resources — wind, solar, water [hydropower], and biomass — to energize twice our actual consumption.
Among the various renewable resources, wind power and solar power are assumed to have the most favorable technical and economical prospects.
Especially in these days of climate change, where huge polluting catastrophes such as the oil disaster in the gulf of Mexico (2010) and the nuclear accident in Japan (2011) are querying more and more the energy supply by fossil fuels and nuclear power, alternatives from renewable resources, wind, water, and solar energies, are essential to overcome the energy gap within the next decades.
In the United States the Energy Policy Act [ 3] and the Energy Independence and Security Act [ 4] focus on promoting various renewable resources, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and within biomass mainly liquid biofuels and sets a target of 136 billion litres of biofuel for transport in 2022, hereof 80 billion litres from advanced biofuels, not based on corn starch.
