Solar home system program in rural east timor putting communities first

Gajic, Maja; Greenwood, Kate

doi:10.1109/r10-htc.2017.8288899

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“…Timor-Leste's government, despite impressive progress and plans to electrify much of the country, acknowledges that 20 percent of the population won't have access to a centralised grid in the next 20 years as they live in sparsely populated mountainous areas that are difficult to access and connect (ATA, 2015;Gajic and Greenwood, 2017).…”

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Working together to reduce energy poverty in Timor-Leste with environmentally sustainable community-based economic development: A transnational developmental social work approach

Keevers

2020

International Social Work

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This article discusses the social development practices of an international collaboration working to reduce energy poverty through the provision of household solar lighting for Indigenous people living in remote communities in the Remexio district in Timor-Leste. The article discusses some of the findings of a practice-based study that uses collaborative inquiry to analyse the working model of ‘Lampu Diak’, the name of the solar lighting project, and its impacts on the health and well-being of local people and the communities in which they live. Underpinned by a practice-based sociomaterial approach, the analysis characterises the Lampu Diak project as a heterogeneous and distributed network. It discusses four of the developmental social work practices that sustain the project, with a particular emphasis on the introduction of clean, affordable, sustainable solar lighting and the associated ‘common funds’. Common funds are informal microcredit schemes managed by community-based self-help groups. The article explores the potential affordances, benefits and pitfalls of common funds and the unanticipated ways in which they continue to unfold and extend the Lampu Diak project. The article contributes an example of how a village-to-village transnational collaboration practises developmental social work in a particular context.

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Section: The Issue: Energy Poverty In Timor-lestementioning

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Working together to reduce energy poverty in Timor-Leste with environmentally sustainable community-based economic development: A transnational developmental social work approach

Keevers

2020

International Social Work

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“…To expand the electricity coverage to remote rural communities, electricity generation from renewable energy sources is a feasible option. Some solutions based on renewable sources are solar home systems and remote microgrid systems [13][14][15]. Both systems differ in the amount of electricity they can deliver.…”

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Feasibility Study for Off-Grid Hybrid Power Systems Considering an Energy Efficiency Initiative for an Island in Ecuador

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This paper shows the technical–economic, operational and environmental feasibility of four off-grid hybrid power systems to supply energy to the Cerrito de los Morreños community in Ecuador. These configurations consist of combinations of diesel generators, solar photovoltaic systems, and battery energy storage systems. Each configuration was simulated and the results were analyzed for two different load conditions: (1) the existing load profile and (2) a reduced load profile by incorporating an energy efficiency initiative. Homer Pro software was used to perform the simulations. The planning horizon for the simulations was selected to be 15 years. The results showed the diesel/photovoltaic/battery configuration with energy efficiency showed the best performance, which was achieved with a photovoltaic system of 160 kWp, the existing generator of 165 kW and a storage system of 283 kWh. The stand-alone diesel generator and photovoltaic/diesel configurations showed higher Net Present Costs, instability problems and higher CO2 emissions. Additionally, the configurations without energy efficiency had increases of between 15% and 40% higher costs compared to their respective energy-efficient scenarios. The information in this work could be useful for some organizations in Ecuador who are interested in investing in rural electrification projects with renewable energy to reduce and/or compensate their CO2 emissions.

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Electrification in post-conflict Timor-Leste: Opportunities for energy services to enhance rural agricultural development

Heynen,

MacGinley,

Aguilar

2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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Solar home system program in rural east timor putting communities first

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Working together to reduce energy poverty in Timor-Leste with environmentally sustainable community-based economic development: A transnational developmental social work approach

Working together to reduce energy poverty in Timor-Leste with environmentally sustainable community-based economic development: A transnational developmental social work approach

Feasibility Study for Off-Grid Hybrid Power Systems Considering an Energy Efficiency Initiative for an Island in Ecuador

Electrification in post-conflict Timor-Leste: Opportunities for energy services to enhance rural agricultural development

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