The Indo-US cooperative photovoltaic project

Author

Stone, Jack L. ; Ullal, Harin S. ; Sastry, E.V.R.

Author_Institution

Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

29 Sep-3 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1273

Lastpage

1275

Abstract

A cooperative program was established in 1993 by the governments of India and the United States. The 50-50 cost share project funded $500,000 of PV power systems for home lighting, water pumping, battery charging and vaccine refrigeration systems in the Sundarbans region of West Bengal, India. The project was designed as a sustainable rural economic development initiative with the Ramakrishna Mission, a well-respected humanitarian nongovernment organization (NGO) in this remote area of India. Special attention was paid to building an infrastructure for financing, installing and maintaining the PV power systems. A before-and-after impact study on the beneficiaries is being done. Lessons learned to date are presented along with details of the installed systems

Keywords

government policies; photovoltaic power systems; project engineering; Indo-US cooperative photovoltaic project; PV power systems; battery charging; governments; home lighting; rural economic development; vaccine refrigeration; water pumping; Batteries; Buildings; Costs; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Refrigeration; Solar power generation; US Government; Vaccines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1997., Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3767-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1997.654320

Filename

654320