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Clean water with clean energy: a huge market for PV - but not yet explored
World-wide there a 2 billion people living without electricity, and about 1.3 billion without adequate drinking water supply. But why does this happen, even though there are plenty of well known water treatment technologies, and photovoltaic systems can provide electric energy even to the most remote locations. In an EU-sponsored project, Fraunhofer ISE with Spanish and Latin American partners investigated a new approach for PV-powered drinking water supplies after characterization of rural water supplies in 9 Latin American countries. In parallel, different disinfection technologies were analyzed and units available on the market were tested. For 5 pilot villages in Mexico, Argentina and Morocco adpated PV-powered water treatment and disinfection systems were developed and implemented later-on into the communities. Special attention was paid to the careful analysis of the socio-cultural context in the pilot villages. The installations were accompanied by an education campaign and additional measures. In the course of the project, some major barriers hindering the development of the rural drinking water market could be identified, but also recommendations were elaborated how to overcome these barriers.
Clean water with clean energy: a huge market for PV - but not yet explored
World-wide there a 2 billion people living without electricity, and about 1.3 billion without adequate drinking water supply. But why does this happen, even though there are plenty of well known water treatment technologies, and photovoltaic systems can provide electric energy even to the most remote locations. In an EU-sponsored project, Fraunhofer ISE with Spanish and Latin American partners investigated a new approach for PV-powered drinking water supplies after characterization of rural water supplies in 9 Latin American countries. In parallel, different disinfection technologies were analyzed and units available on the market were tested. For 5 pilot villages in Mexico, Argentina and Morocco adpated PV-powered water treatment and disinfection systems were developed and implemented later-on into the communities. Special attention was paid to the careful analysis of the socio-cultural context in the pilot villages. The installations were accompanied by an education campaign and additional measures. In the course of the project, some major barriers hindering the development of the rural drinking water market could be identified, but also recommendations were elaborated how to overcome these barriers.
Clean water with clean energy: a huge market for PV - but not yet explored
Parodi, O. (author) / Preiser, K. (author) / Schweizer-Ries, P. (author)
2000
5 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 2 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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