Stimulating the Picohydropower Market for Low-Income Households in Ecuador

• Tác giả: John Green
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 385.09 *Railroad transportation
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 314802
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY; 2. ACCESS TO LIGHTING; 3. ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY; 4. APPROACH; 5. AVAILABILITY

Tóm tắt

 The main aim of this World Bank-ESMAP project has been to pave the way for picohydro to become accessible to low-income households in Ecuador, with the view to replicating the process in the Andean region and other developing countries. This has been done through five main activities: (1) assessing the main experiences in picohydro technology and market developments, looking particularly at Vietnam and the Philippines1
  (2) reviewing the existing use of microhydro in five Andean countries2 and assessing their potential picohydro market
  (3) establishing 31 pilot picohydro projects in two provinces of Ecuador with full participation of the end users in local communities
  (4) encouraging a sustainable local infrastructure for supporting picohydro technology in Ecuador through training local technicians and bringing local dealers forward to consider picohydro as a business venture
  and (5) conducting a rapid rural appraisal in the communities before and after the installation of the picohydro pilots to consider the technological and social impacts in the Ecuadoran situation.