Impacto del ingreso de la central hidroeléctrica Santiago sobre el factor de emisión anual y mensual de CO2 de la red eléctrica del sistema nacional interconectado en el periodo 2016-2026

Abstract

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed methodologies through which they can determine the CO2 emission factor of an electricity network. For this case study the methodology called ACM002 is used: "Generation of electrical energy connected to the grid from renewable sources" version 17. In recent years, Ecuador, within the framework of its energy policy, has implemented and is developing projects of hydroelectric generation, in particular the entry into operation of the Rio Santiago plant with a capacity of 2400MW in its first stage, which modifies the supply of the generating plant of the country's electricity matrix. This situation modifies the dispatch of thermoelectric plants to supply the demand of the National Interconnected System (SNI); being the same in an electrical network the main source of CO2 emissions. In the present work an analysis of the evolution of the CO2 emission factor for the period 2016-2026 is shown, considering an update of the estimated dates of the electric generation projects proposed in the Electrification Master Plan 2016-2025 (PME 2016 -2025), based on information available from documents of the electric sector institutions.