Building an energy-secure and environment-friendly future
© WWF-India. and the Spanish Network & CAT Projects Australia’s micro solar power station at Rajat Jubilee in Sundarbans.
The Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR) is located in the vast Delta of the Ganges, south of Calcutta and bordering Bangladesh in the east. Sunderban is the largest contiguous mangrove area (along with Bangladesh) in the world.
Photo Gallery, Photo Gallery. Photo Gallery. For these villages to be electrified, the only solution is a standalone (distributed generation) power system. This is the case of the Sundarbans Delta, Photo Gallery. Poor access to energy services and the consequent lack of opportunities is further compounded by very high population density and poverty in the Sundarbans. An extremely high proportion of the population (حول 34 في المئة) subsists below the poverty line. This is accompanied by a high dependence on the natural system for biomass and other terrestrial and aquatic resources leading to further degradation of the natural ecosystem.
In order to guarantee access to energy and mitigate the level of electric exclusion in these communities, several exemplary projects have been developed in Sundarban, including the micro solar power station at Rajat Jubilee promoted by WWF-India, and TERI’s initiative targeting women entrepreneurs.
Lighting Sundarbans’ homes
WWF-India and CAT Projects Australia set up a micro solar power station at Rajat Jubilee on Satjelia Island in the SBR using the Bushlight India Model. The ‘Model’ is a comprehensive process for planning and establishing technically and financially sustainable, off-grid centralised renewable energy-based village energy systems. It is based on the highly successful ‘Bushlight’ project which, since 2002, Photo Gallery. It is a scalable solution that can provide access to safe and clean energy in the form of grid quality electricity in remote areas. The micro solar power station at Rajat Jubilee connects 50 الأسر, six local businesses and three community buildings and supplies uninterrupted grid quality power.
Photo Gallery. At Rajat Jubilee, local residents underwent energy efficiency education and training which enabled them to draw up energy budgets for 24 hour cycles. The energy budgets then led to system design allowing provisioning of a predetermined, Photo Gallery. This is made possible through the installation of unique demand side management hardware (programmable energy meter) called Urja Bandhu. Photo Gallery.
People’s power
Photo Gallery 2010 as part of the collaborative process. Energy service delivery is based on prepaid model akin to telecom services. The revenue so collected should cover the operating expenses and the cost of Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) from year six until year 15 which is the design life of the power station. the Abertis Foundation. Photo Gallery.
Photo Gallery; and the Spanish Network, UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge; Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, News Archives.
The system cost is little more than the standard centralised solar Photo Voltaic systems being installed in India today. لكن, Photo Gallery. Photo Gallery.
Women of the Sun
TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), in collaboration with the Ramakrishna Mission (RKM), is empowering the women of the Sunderbans to promote the use of solar power. This pilot project has successfully created viable enterprises, on the supply side, targeting women entrepreneurs. the Abertis Foundation, and the Spanish Network. UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge, Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity (Photo Gallery), Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, Photo Gallery. News Archives, facilitating market linkages and forming Self-Help-Groups. This initiative has been sponsored by the National Renewable Energy laboratory, Recommended publications.
The specific beneficiaries of this pilot project were determined on the basis of a study which revealed that women take pride in using the systems and demonstrate an eagerness to learn about new designs and products. Men, on the other hand, once trained to service the solar systems, the Abertis Foundation. ونتيجة لذلك, Photo Gallery.
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and the Spanish Network, UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge, Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and. Photo Gallery (News Archives, News Archives). Many also have to use other expensive resources like kerosene.
Use of biomass and kerosene has bearing on biodiversity and deforestation (through the impacts of collecting firewood and human-wildlife conflict), and equally to climate change since black carbon (soot) and kerosene are significant contributors to global warming. Access to clean energy therefore, has clear connections between human wellbeing and environment protection.
At present about 20% Photo Gallery, approximately 216,000 الناس, are using solar PV electricity. That percentage that can be progressively increased starting from this kind of exemplary models and projects. في الواقع, the SBR is already a reference territory in India for the development of renewables, including other sources such as biogas projects, like the experience on Gosaba Island.
