Design of a Renewable Energy Generation System for an Electric Craft Brewery

Authors

Cruz, Diego Alejandro

Forero-Garcia, Edwin Francisco

Montenegro-Narvaez, Carlos Enrique

Abstract

One of the paradigms in Colombia is that Renewable Energies (RE) are expensive and only works on illumination and low powers, this work show that the private sector can invest in RE to feed its processes to medium loads, to carry this out, the innovation has to be in industrial processes too. This work innovate with a pioneer electric brewery plant in Colombia that is fed with a micro-red of generation of hybrid ER interconnected to the network; The Colombian legislation already allows this and it proves the feasibility from two optics, the technique modeling and simulating the electrical scheme in Matlab to comply with the electrical requirements; And from the financial point of view, with the HOMER PRO software, which simulates the electrical system as a viable hybrid generation plant. On the other hand, these projects, both the brewery and the hybrid energy are projected to generate seven direct and five indirect jobs of quality, with qualified and unqualified personnel, vulnerable population, and single mother’s head of household. The two corners of the project contribute to employment generation and technological innovation.