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Social Work: Photovoltaic Solar Energy for drinking water
More than 45,000 inhabitants in 52 populations of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are energy and water through a project that began developing four years ago in the Maghreb the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). The project, led by Eduardo Lorenzo and his team of researchers and teachers of the Solar Energy Institute of the UPM, the project 4 years ago to install in rural areas of the Maghreb photovoltaic panels, supplied with an energy source as abundant as Sun, for an area as small as drinking water there.
Research has also helped establish Technical specifications and quality control procedures that must comply with these facilities as part of decentralized rural electrification programs. The results have been included in the publication of the UPM "Good practices in the implementation of photovoltaic pumping systems."
Lorenzo, director of the Solar Energy Institute and professor at the School of Telecommunications, said the social and technological impact that this project has had social
"The lack of infrastructure and the difficulty to electrify these areas scattered and very few people has been solved by installing solar energy panels. This program involves a great responsibility because people are accustomed to consume about three or four times more water than before said.
"Their technological importance lies in the size of the bombs, which reach somewhere in the 15 hectares provide 180 cubic meters of water a day, so the technology gains in credibility, "said .
Applications: electricity and water consumption and livestock population
With an amount more than two million euros, financed by the European Union, the English International Cooperation Agency (AECI) and the participating countries Morocco pumped water for public consumption, while in Tunisia and Algeria is mainly for cattle, bringing water points every 30 miles.
Tichka The Association organizes conferences that bring together large numbers of participants from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa linked to the implementation of renewable energy in the actions of fighting poverty in rural Africa, and representing both centers research and government, as entities from the business and civil society.
organized meetings in addition to technical alternatives considered or relevant to the framework economic and financial, has highlighted the importance of participatory processes in the initial configuration, in the implementation and long-term sustainability of the solutions adopted.
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