Renewable energy supply from endogenous resources, in cities of countries in the process of developing within the framework of urban metabolism. Case of Study Cuenca, Ecuador.

The advantages of renewable energies and their barriers to increase their participation in world energy matrices have been widely discussed. Options are being sought to encourage their use, mainly with the location of large -scale facilities, in most cases located far from the consumption centers and with relative environmental impact. This maintains losses associated with transport, as well as the lack of empathy of urban society against the externalities produced in other spaces. As an alternative, energy self -supply is raised, promoting the use of endogenous resources that a city has. This research proposes a methodology that allows exploring the feasibility of incorporating renewable energy into urban environments, analyzing the available technological alternatives and the environment where they would be implemented. The appropriate framework for this analysis is urban metabolism (MU), since it allows integrating technical and socio -economic aspects, as well as considering the optimal use of resources that a city possesses. By using multicriteria methods, renewable technologies applicable to the city of Cuenca will be determined. Then the technical energy potential of resources will be defined, which will allow building energy and demand energy scenarios.

15th UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMPETITION