Building an energy-secure and environment-friendly future
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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, Canada. Natural Resources Canada. RES Initiatives Viewer, Renewable Interactive Map (Recommended publications) guidelines. 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 (über 34 Prozent) 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, Photo Gallery.
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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. COP21, Climate change is a complex issue which... Case studies Guidebook, This guidebook 2002, Photo Gallery. Canada. Natural Resources Canada 50 Haushalte, six local businesses and three community buildings and supplies uninterrupted grid quality power.
The ‘Bushlight’ model involves a comprehensive community engagement and energy planning framework. 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, assured amount of daily energy to all consumers and providing the community with the information and tools to use this energy to complement and build their livelihoods as they need and choose on a day to day basis. This is made possible through the installation of unique demand side management hardware (programmable energy meter) called Urja Bandhu. Photo Gallery.
People’s power
The power station is owned and managed by a consumer cooperative society that was registered in late 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. Cost of AMC for the first five years and cost of battery replacement has been capitalised in the project cost. Photo Gallery.
The model ensures that systems are installed only in villages where they are the most appropriate technical and economic option; that consumers are provided with the necessary support, information and tools to use their energy to complement and build their livelihoods as they need and choose; and that systems incorporate fail-safe protection against damaging overuse, while also maintaining the quality, reliability and equity of supply to all consumers.
The system cost is little more than the standard centralised solar Photo Voltaic systems being installed in India today. Jedoch, Photo Gallery. The use of UrjaBandhu allows simplified tariff structures to be adopted and a variety of institutional management structures to be employed.
Women of the Sun
TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), in Zusammenarbeit mit der Ramakrishna Mission (RKM), is empowering the women of the Sunderbans to promote the use of solar power. Dieses Pilotprojekt erfolgreich lebensfähige Unternehmen erstellt, on the supply side, targeting women entrepreneurs. These enterprises have been created not only to provide solar PV-based services in remote and interior villages, but also to provide repair and maintenance services to already existing products and systems. An organizational set up, called MFEDO (Market Facilitating and Enterprise Development Organization), Photo Gallery, to oversee the development of these enterprises. MFEDO provides comprehensive support by way of procuring raw material, facilitating market linkages and forming Self-Help-Groups. This initiative has been sponsored by the National Renewable Energy laboratory, Photo Gallery.
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, migrate to the cities in search for better opportunities. Infolge, the project succeeds on two fronts – empowering women and fostering sustainable development.
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At present about 20% of the area’s population, Natural Resources Canada 216,000 Menschen, are using solar PV electricity. Photo Gallery. Tatsächlich, 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.
