Energy storage configuration requirements for Peru wind power projects

There are high expectations that the government of Peru will promote public policies that seek the implementation of wind farms in different places in the territory, which will allow the generation of renewable energy and provide access to clean energy to more inhabitants and productive activities.

In the Peruvian case, the maximum permitted wind energy in the network is 640 MW. This figure was established in a later revised report made by the COES, following an initial study that indicated a potential of 375 MW.

With respect to economic terms, the government of Peru should avoid subsidizing on-shore wind energy, since it has demonstrated improvements in its efficiency and a reduction in its costs, in such a way as to allow for the realization of a route for off-shore wind energy that will require the creation of financing mechanisms.

The wind energy market in Peru is a recent one, implying the existing need for various services related to this technology. These services include engineering, installation, and maintenance services.

It is necessary for Peru to consider as a reference the successful models of wind energy development implemented in neighboring Latin American countries, with the cases of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile being references in this matter, countries in which there are an important number of wind farms in operation [46, 47, 48, 49, 50].

This installed capacity for the year 2023 is equivalent to 3% of the usable on-shore wind energy potential of 20.5 GW. In Figure 16, it is possible to see a summary indicating the amount of annual energy generated in GWh and the capacity factor of each wind farm that is in operation in Peru.