NewsWhore
02-20-2012, 11:00 AM
A report in Listin Diario on Saturday February 18 describes how the community of Loma del Rancho has succeeded in generating its own energy using the stream in the hills of Pinar Quemado near Jarabacoa.
The micro hydroelectric system, which has 10 kilowatts of power, was inaugurated last October. It provides 45 families with a permanent electricity supply as well as the school and other community establishments.
Several other settlements are building their own local energy systems.
What these initiatives have in common is that they are not only using water as a source to generate power but that each project has received technical and financial support from the local office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Small Subsidies Program (PPS), which aims to improve the quality of life of local people as well as protecting the environment.
Michela Izzo of the PPS said that there are currently 16 micro hydroelectric systems in operation, with another 10 under construction or being looked at. The project first started in 1997 in El Limon de San Jose de Ocoa, with a 3.5kw system serving 70 families.
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The micro hydroelectric system, which has 10 kilowatts of power, was inaugurated last October. It provides 45 families with a permanent electricity supply as well as the school and other community establishments.
Several other settlements are building their own local energy systems.
What these initiatives have in common is that they are not only using water as a source to generate power but that each project has received technical and financial support from the local office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Small Subsidies Program (PPS), which aims to improve the quality of life of local people as well as protecting the environment.
Michela Izzo of the PPS said that there are currently 16 micro hydroelectric systems in operation, with another 10 under construction or being looked at. The project first started in 1997 in El Limon de San Jose de Ocoa, with a 3.5kw system serving 70 families.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)