#MicroGrid #Solar for Haiti, surplus powers food mills #Agriculture
Post date: Dec 24, 2013 4:40:32 PM
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On Haiti's southern peninsula, the town of Les Anglais rises alongside a snaking river prone to seasonal swells. Some 400 homes and businesses.
Haiti's first prepay micro-grid
customers are paying for electricity before consuming it. The idea of prepayment for services is not a novel idea. People in Haiti buy phone credits for minutes before they talk on the phone. Many countries use prepay for electricity. South Africa uses it a lot. We'd like the telecommunications company to become a customer of the micro-grid.
Les Anglais. There will be times when the peak of the season for the agricultural processing facilities is happening and they're going to need more electricity than normal. When the agricultural processing facility isn't at peak, well, then the rest of the customers can have access to higher levels of electricity if they're on this flexible tariff schedule. Instead of central AC, which doesn't exist in Les Anglais, it might be use of your boom box.
source: news.nationalgeographic.com
Digicel, Haiti’s largest cell phone company,
pre-pay electricity
uses diesel generators to power many of its cell towers in remote locations, but the company generates a great deal of excess capacity to insure against outages. In one such tower near Les Anglais, EarthSpark saw an opportunity to use the excess capacity—a relatively tiny amount of energy for Digicel—to set up a micro-grid and power lights and homes in town.
Today, the micro-grid is just that—it serves only 14 households
source: haitirewired.wired.com
video: http://www.youtube.com
EarthSpark will soon be able to announce some exciting expansion news (hint: solar energy!)
In preparation, EarthSpark has issued a request for proposals for a microgrid power system. We welcome thoughts, questions, and, of course, proposals from qualified entities interested in working with us on the next phase of microgrid expansion.
The full RFP, including two amendments, is available for download here. The deadline for proposal submission is Tuesday, December
