Development of typical meteorological year for massive renewable energy deployment in Togo

ABSTRACT

Renewable energy (RE) penetration assessment and the development typical meteorological year (TMY) for five cities are considered together in this study. Thus, an integrated method is utilised encompassing RE status assessment and the Sandia method to generate the typical meteorological months of TMY. TMY and long-term data (LT) are then compared as well as a PV system of 3kWc output using TMY and LT under statistical errors. Until 2020 only 11.27% out of 360.02 MW capacity in power demand was RE (hydro and solar). LT and TMY are close for all the towns with a better closeness for Sokode. The latter predicts PV system performance within 2% of the LT in all the sites. More investment has to be put in RE sector because of its potential: 5.27 kWh/m2/day of mean solar radiation, 1238.21 mm of average annual precipitation and 7 m/s of mean wind speed at 50 m above the ground.

KEYWORDS:

• Typical meteorological year (TMY)
• renewable energy
• Sandia method
• socio-economic impacts
• RE deployment
• Togo

Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Niger.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung through West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, (WASCAL), Niger.