Comments (0) SMA Solar Technology has delivered 100 of its standalone inverter systems, the Sunny Island and Sunny Boy, to healthcare centres in Ethiopia. The supply of these systems is under an agreement with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH.
With so many different organizations aimed at bringing clean energy to the developing world, how are they attracting the capital needed to fund their altruistic undertakings?
California — One of the most unique aspects of renewable energy – its distributed nature – makes it a perfect solution for areas of the world where the general population does not have access to electricity. There are currently a host of solar projects bringing light and power to these more removed regions of the world, a handful of which were recently highlighted at Intersolar in San Francisco, in mid-July.
Kenya — Let there be light. And thanks to the efforts of rural women in one of the most remote corners of the Kenyan republic, lights turn on as night falls at the end of a sunny day.
Tucked away in the remote villages of Olando and Got Kaliech in rural Kenya, residents in this poor outpost in south-western Kenya today have light after darkness falls. The light is thanks to Phoebe Jondiko, Joyce Matunga and Phoebe Akinyi, the three solar “women engineers” who have literally switched on the lights in the two villages with a view to lighting up more villages in the remote Gwassi Division in Suba District.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) and Pakistan Council for Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) have collaboratively installed 12 solar energy panel systems in ten different remotely located villages of Ziarat district of Balochistan.With the successful implementation of this solar energy initiative, some of the least developed villages of Balochistan province have been facilitated with provision of solar generated electricity, benefiting around 123 local households.
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108709&Itemid=2
By Brian Dumaine in Fortune Magazine, July 5, 2010
Nuru Energy, A London based startup, has found a way to make high efficiency LED lighting affordable in rural Rwanda. The secret? Create an army of local entrepreneurs.
The government will allocate additional resources to build micro-hydro projects with a capacity of 50-100 KW to provide electricity to every village in the country with the potential to generate electricity but without a power connection. Finance Minister Surendra Pandey said on Sunday that government resources would be made available to generate electricity through micro-hydro projects in such villages within the next three years.
http://www.energycentral.com/functional/news/news_detail.cfm?did=15636166
In the remote interior of Congo, the news was buzzing around the villages: a Canadian company needed workers for a seed farm to produce jatropha plants, a new biofuel for global markets.
The company asked for 20 workers to arrive at 7:30 on a Wednesday morning. “You wouldn’t believe it – there were 800 people who showed up, some of them a few days before, and they slept on the road,” says Louis Tourillon, founder and CEO of Carbon2Green, a Montreal-based company.
The Helios Foundation for Sustainable Development, a not-for-profit venture to improve access to affordable and sustainable energy for low-income communities in developing countries, has been set up by former executives of Scottish Power and Shell.
http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/9112/sustainable-energy-for-developing-countries/
Solar collectors await installation at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. The patch of Florida ground is standing in for Africa so designers can refine the ability to produce power for clinics or schools in the small nation of Lesotho.
Do you know the power generating facility that is popular among children in Africa? It’s a simple funny see-saw “the Energy-Saw.”It generates electricity as a by-product of play. Approximately 10 minutes of average see-saw use can power two 11W appliances for 20-25 minutes.
