Solar energy for development. Cooperation and energy independence.
Habana Ciudad Solar is a project funded by the Spanish Cooperation and led by Sodepaz. Its objectives include the development and implementation of a specific methodology for the evaluation of the solar potential of Havana (Cuba).
This methodology has been developed in the municipality of Guanabacoa, one of the municipalities that make up Havana, located northeast of the city, beyond the Bay.
Valorizing natural resources to address the energy and climate crisis.
In Guanabacoa, an urban area of 1,673 blocks has been analyzed, mainly concentrated in the western part of the municipality and occupying 16% of its territory. The most densely built-up areas are distributed mainly in plots of medium and high occupancy, with 30-80% built-up and comprise 60% of the urbanized area.
The study estimates that 57% of the urbanized surface area are plots with more than 1,000 m² of roofs available for solar installations. These plots correspond to 39% of the urban area classified as residential and 15% to the industrial fabric, most of them with more than 2,000 m².
View the presentation of the “Havana Solar City” map on September 28, 2022.
A. M. Martín, J. Domínguez, L. F. Zarzalejo (2022)
Habana Ciudad Solar: methodological proposal for the estimation of solar energy potential.
XIX Geographic Information Technologies Congress. GIT at the service of the SDGs. Zaragoza.
A. M. Martín, J. Domínguez, L. F. Zarzalejo, M. Domínguez (2022).
Methodology for the elaboration of the Solar Map of Havana (Cuba). Ciemat Technical Reports 1512.
