Is their enough wind to power the Philippines?
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at
2:09 am
the Philippines has the potential to generate 70,000 megawatt of electricity from wind power. what is the total energy consumption of the Philippines? will 70,000 megawatt be enough to supply a large percentage of electricity for all of the Philippines?
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There is no continuous winds that have the potential to sustain a profitable wind power operation. But there is one way and that is to harness powerful winds blown out by seasonal typhoons. Unfortunately, they are very destructive and limited only during the rainy seasons. So for the rest of the year, the expensive turbines and generations would only rather be a huge liabilty. Also, dams will have more than enough water to operate hydropower plants. So in one way or another, there will be excess production that will most likely not be used so they should be stored for future demand. And storing of produced electric power is costly if not unfeasible to the Philippines.
Not enough wind power here, the windmills require a constant wind, not the occasional breeze we get here.
Absolutely not. The Philippines would do alot better with solar power and cutting down their energy use during non-daylight times. In megacities such as Manila even solar power is not realistic because there are simply too many people packed into too small of a place to completely replace the energy use with solar energy but it is possible in small cities and in small towns where there is less of a need for large amounts of energy and there is plenty of room to have solar farms.
Yes & No.
Yes, along with geothermal, hydro-electric, and solar energy…the Philippines can support it electricity consumption.
No, because if all of us Filipinos will depend on one energy source only, it would be difficult and wind turbines are very expensive too.
On summertime there’s no wind at all.
Nope, no where near the actual usage. The Philippines consumes 48 Billion kWh (2009).
But I agree that we have to harness renewable sources of energy, including solar and hydro i so that we use less petroleum in terms of percentage.
You might be interested in the write up, and various charts in this site. There’s a graph that shows the sources of energy in the Philippines (2005 data).
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/energy-issues/philippines/index.shtml