Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
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Technologies
Renewable energy potential maps
For achieving the objectives:
Goals: 7. Affordable and clean energy, 11. Sustainable cities and communities, 13. Climate action
Recipient country: Lesotho
Sector: Research & Innovation
Sector: Research & Innovation
Description
ENEA elaborates renewable energy potential maps on whatever territory with variable horizontal resolutions, based on the size of the area of interest.
The maps can be integrated with topographic and socioeconomic layers, thus providing a useful tool to accurately plan the potential development of renewable energy sources.
Benefits and Advantages:
- Planning the use of renewable energy sources
- Mitigation and containment of greenhouse gas emissions
ENEA Service:
- Elaboration of wind energy potential maps
- Elaboration of photovoltaic energy potential maps
- Elaboration of hydrographic maps for potential hydroelectric energy use
Example of wind field on Lesotho at 1km resolution
ENEA Activities:
ENEA has a multi-year experience on mesoscale weather modelling (some tens to a few km spatial resolution) and hydrographic basins analysis. This know-how has been proposed in developing countries to create renewable energy potential maps (wind, photovoltaic and hydrolectric).