WWF-India helps far flung villages access grid quality power. Access to safe, clean energy is fundamental to poverty eradication, to stopping deforestation, and to stopping climate change. Most poor people and inhabitants of remote locations meet the majority of their energy needs by collecting biomass (fuel wood,
Read more →Solar pump system in Taroudant. AE Photonics Maroc has set up Africa’s largest solar pump to date in the southern Moroccan town of Taroudant, 170 km from Agadir. Pump PS21k made by Lorentz is run by 84 LDK 220 W/poly modules, and transports 308 m³ of water
Read more →Green lodges in the heart of the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve The Welgevonden Private Game Reserve is a 37000 ha, privately owned game reserve in the heart of the Waterberg. It forms part of the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve which was officially declared by UNESCO in 2001 – currently
Read more →Solar Rural Electrification Prior to the Luz Para Todos (“Light for All”) initiative, a significant percentage of the Brazilian population lacked access to electricity. The program shows what can be accomplished with strong leadership and vision. The scope of the program is the whole country but has a
Read more →Reconciliation of Energy Production and Cultural Heritage Protection. Golija-Studenica Biosphere Reserve is situated in south western Serbia and belongs to the inner zone of the Dinaric mountain system. The biosphere reserve includes the Studenica Monastery, which is a cultural World Heritage site and a popular tourist attraction.
Read more →Building into the tundra. As one of the leaders in sustainable design, the National Park Service made a priority of re-modeling Eielson Visitor Center using sustainable building methods and materials. Building into the tundra. A main goal of the project was to design a low-profile building that
Read more →Cost-effective and eco-friendly: a former ammunition bunker is turned into a large-scale solar power. In Radelstetten, in the Swabian Alb hill range of southern Germany, was constructed a 1.1 MW output PV plant on the site of a former German Army ammunition dump. Up until the year
Read more →Green power for Green places – Ria Largartos biosphere reserve. Amigos Contoy A.C. signed a collaboration agreement with the Lighthouse Foundation and with the Isla Contoy National Park management in December 2005 to develop the project for “improvement and optimisation of solar and wind-generated systems for electric
Read more →Tres Virgenes Geothermal Plant. “Las Tres Vírgenes” is the most recent field in operation in Mexico. It is located in the middle of the Baja California peninsula, at the north of the state of Baja California Sur and inside the buffer zone of the El Vizcaíno Biosphere
Read more →The largest solar plant of Costa Rica built in “Agua y Paz” biosphere reserve. Built on the slopes of Miravalles Volcano, the Miravalles solar park was originally proposed by the Costa Rican Electricity Institution (ICE) and a letter of intent was signed in August by GeSolar, a
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