Empresa de Servicios Publicos de Heredia (ESPH) in Costa Rica wants to develop a wind farm to complement hydropower generation. We explored the feasibility of building a wind farm at a site in Guanacaste for ESPH by determining potential energy output, feasible turbine placement, construction feasibility, financial feasibility and the social and environmental impacts. We proposed a design with a twelve-megawatt wind farm with a payback period of five years as the most cost-effective and efficient.

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Creator

• Balasubramanian, Pragathi
• Jovanovic, Branislav
• Kirk, James Faulkner

Subject

• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Energy
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121310-233344

Keyword

• Wind power
• Electric power distribution
• Renewable energy sources
• Energy policy

Advisor

• Rudolph, Jennifer
• Selkow, Stanley M.

Year

• 2010

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• ESPH

Date created

• 2010-12-13

Location

• San José

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright