Reliable Electrical Power for Developing Countries
Everywhere in the world, reliable electric power is critical to economic development, education, and medical care. In developing countries, electricity is fundamental for many essential services, including those that increase incomes and provide development benefits to rural areas.
Yet, roughly 350-400 million households, or 40% of their population do not have access to electricity. In fact, almost 1.6 billion people currently live without electricity in developing countries. Those who live beyond the electricity networks lack access to health care, education, communications, and enterprise opportunities that modern energy services can facilitate. The lack of access to modern energy services severely limits socioeconomic development - an integral part of sustainable development.
This challenge, therefore, requires an effective set of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive technical solutions particularly suitable for Reliable Energy Supply in developing countries. The resulting solutions must offer:
- Low cost
- High reliability
- Low maintenance
- High scalability
- High flexibility
- Environment friendly
- Local training programs for ongoing maintenance
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