The first barefoot solar engineer of India: fully solar ... · The best grandmother solar engineer...
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The first barefoot solar engineer of India: fully solar electrified the
campus between 1986 and 2000
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A Priest turned solar engineer became master trainer
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Total Generation:287 Kws/day: 6 Battery Banks:Storage: 460 Kws
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45 Kws: 5 separate solar power plants: only fully solar electrified
campus in India
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BAREFOOT COLLEGE SOLAR POWER GENERATION & CONSUMPTION AS OF 2007
1-NUMBERS OF PANELS INSTALLED 64 NO. of 80 watts
40 WATTS=275 NO.,
70 WATT=360
2- AMOUNT GENERATED PER DAY 43.5 Kw/hr (7 hours of sunlight)
3-NUMBER OF INVERTORS 12
CAPACITY 3 KVA
4-TOTAL CAPACITY GENERATED PER DAY 287 KW
5-BATTERY BANK 6 (76.800 Kw/bank)
800 Ah 48no. battery bank
6-STORAGE IN BATTERY BANK 460.8 KW
7- EQUIPMENTS RUN BY SOLAR 30 computers (24 hours)
8-TOTAL CONSUMPTION 15 kw /day
FAX,PHOTOCOPY MACHINE
PBX PROJECTORS/VCR/TV
9- Lights and fans 700 lights
140 fans
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125,000 people
have benefitted
5,200 solar lanterns:
225 Night schools in
6 States
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The best grandmother solar engineer today-looking after 200
solar units since 2005
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Cost of Solar Electrifying 5 villages in Afghanistan is the cost of
one UN Consultant sitting in Kabul for 1 year
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Today the women have trained 27 more women in
Afghanistan and solar electrified 100 villages
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What is the barefoot approach in Africa?
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Call a meeting of the whole village to decide: 1. How much each
family is prepared to pay in writing for the use of the solar unit
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Each house will get one fixed solar light(11 watt) in
the house, one LED Light, one solar lantern and one
plug to charge mobiles costing $ 350 each
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2. Form a Village level Committee to Collect the monthly contribution
for repair and maintenance and paying the women engineer
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Select the illiterate rural grandmother to be sent to india for 6 months to be
trained as a solar engineer
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Community must agree to donate a room to establish a Rural electronic
Workshop to carry out instant repairs
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Rural Electronic Workshop-Sierra Leone
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The best solar engineers all over the continent of Africa have been the illiterate
rural grandmothers.