Since its entry into the Kenyan market 15 years ago, Shenzhen Solar Run Energy Co. Ltd has enhanced access to electricity among off-grid rural communities, transforming their lives, said Li Xia, the company's founder. According to Li, the rollout of solar media in partnership with local char...
Off-Grid communitiesSustainable livingThe term "off-grid community" specifically defines certain clusters of people, and their main electrical supply line is not connected with any available national grid line for electricity needs in evedoi:10.1007/978-3-319-43434-6_20Muhammad Hassan Bin Afzal...
There are now several websites dedicated to land-sharing so that the costs of buying land and getting permission can be shared, and there are increasing numbers of off-grid communities. 4 Off-gridding could soon be common all over Europe and America.A.Many are self-sufficient, not just ...
communitiesself-sufficiencyself-determinationRemote or off-grid communities in Canada primarily rely on diesel generators for the provision of their electricity. Often surrounded by potential renewable resources, they are characterised as the low-hanging fruit of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. While ...
For communities like Tyalgum that are small but still served by the mainstream grid, the best option is to go "grid neutral" (where you use your own renewable power rather than grid-provided electricity) or "grid positive" (where you maintain your grid connection to sell the surplus power ...
The North Sea offers an incredible opportunity for the UK and our European neighbours to deliver huge increases in offshore wind. But delivering new offshore wind will require more infrastructure, which will have an impact on communities.
grid PV solar energy in India, specifically homing in on the innovative business models that are evolving. We develop a new typology of upscaling dimensions in order to analyze these five initiatives. They are found to be quite successful, but have difficulty in terms of reaching the poorest ...
The “back to the land movement” families and communities of modern America are some of the least-documented elements in the make-up of modern capitalism’s heartland. Their rejection of contemporary technologies and lifestyles in favour of a more natural, perhaps primitive, existence is so at ...
While remote research stations have significantly lowered the barrier to studying the microbial communities on icecaps, their use has led to a bias for data collection in the near vicinity of these institutions. Here, miniaturisation of a DNA sequencing lab suitable for off-grid metagenomic studies...
This type of solution has the advantage of being less expensive than conventional technologies, is rapidly scalable, affordable, environmentally sustainable, and can play a critical role in empowering rural communities. In this context, this study proposed a spatial framework for off-grid solar energy...