Geographic Information System and Microgrids

Abstract

Currently Ecuador advocates a change in the energy matrix, academic centers should develop a strategy that allows them to short and medium term training specialists give technical responses to this proposal it must create the conditions in college so that future generations be able to link the processes of investment in energy with the territorial space. The Technical University of Manabí (UTM) has proposed a research project funded by the National Secretary of Planning and Development of Ecuador (Senplades), aimed at boosting sustainable energy solutions that are based on the technical philosophy of microgrids with the use of renewable energy sources (RES).In this paper the spatial information related to solar energy potential of the province of Manabí, Ecuador’s, managed by a geographic information system (GIS) as an integration tool that provides information on objectives that interact with microgrids shown, also the importance of its use as a management tool projects related to the use of RES and instrumentation aimed at ensuring inno-vative solutions to support the change of energy matrix from a territorial perspective is exposed.