Spanish T-Solar and Solarpack have been awarded the Peruvian Government's contract for the annual supply of 173 GWh of PV energy
over a period of 20 years. T-Solar's installed capacity makes it one of the biggest photovoltaic (PV) power generators
in the world, and Solarpack is a pioneer in the development, construction and maintenance of photovoltaic projects.
To supply the 173 GWh, T-Solar and Solarpack will be jointly developing four 20-MW photovoltaic plants. Two of these will be developed and run by T-Solar (Majes Solar
20T and Repartición Solar 20T) and the other two (Tacna Solar 20T and Panamericana Solar 20TS) by SolarPack in consortium with T-Solar.
The four PV plants must be in operation before 30th June 2012. They will be located in the south of Peru, in the regions of Tacna, Arequipa and Moquegua, which have a high average annual irradiation of 2,300 KWh/m2.
According to the resolution of this first tender for power supply using renewable energy resources (RER), the electricity generated by the four plants will be bought by the national grid system (SEIN) in Peru at a guaranteed price over 20 years.
The award of the PV power tendered in this auction is an important operation for T-Solar in the Americas. According to T-Solar's CEO, Juan Laso, the company wanted to participate in this process because "the project looks good, as there is high solar irradiation in these areas and the conditions in Peru are attractive, an investment-grade country with political and economic stability."Juan Laso says that this award "increases T-Solar's backlog under development, which now comprises over 650 MW".
This contract enables Solarpack to consolidate its operations in South America, where the company is already one of the biggest developers specialising in photovoltaic (PV) solar energy. From its subsidiary in Chile, Solarpack is spearheading the implementation of projects such as the "Calama Solar 1" plant, which is the first multi-megawatt solar plant with an environmental licence in the entire South-American continent. Pablo Burgos, Solarpack's general manager, states that "our upfront, innovative wager on this market is bearing fruit even earlier than we expected."
Source - Solar Daily
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Development Of Solar-Powered Pasteurization System In Peru
A team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be spending part of the summer designing and starting to build solar-powered pasteurization systems for communities in rural Peru.
The group of engineers, led by Assistant Professor Lupita D. Montoya, was one of four student teams nationally to win a highly competitive Summer Engineering Experience in Development (SEED) grant from nonprofit volunteer organization Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW).
The project aims to help the Langui and Canas community in southern Peru by developing affordable, solar-powered pasteurization equipment.
Many families in the region have dairy cows and produce milk, yogurt, and cheeses on a small scale, but cannot obtain certification to market these products because they lack proper sanitation equipment.
The new pasteurization systems will allow these families to meet governmental regulations and begin selling their dairy products and earning additional income.
"Currently farmers make dairy products for personal consumption and trade with neighbors. During our first trip people told us that they were looking to sell products beyond their town but needed certification," said team member Tara Clancy, an environmental engineering major at Rensselaer who graduates this week.
"Obtaining certification will enable farmers to strengthen their economic independence, but they won't be able to be certified without direct access to water, energy, and sanitary facilities. That's where we can start to implement appropriate technologies."
This summer, Montoya, Rensselaer mechanical engineering doctoral student Erin Lennox, and rising junior Anna Cyganowski will volunteer their time in Langui and Lima, Peru. Along with working on the design and engineering of pasteurization devices, they will partner with students from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú (PUCP) to investigate the social and economic aspects of creating a dairy enterprise.
This effort will include examining how the community currently produces dairy products, looking into local manufacturing regulations, and studying the local marketplace.
The student team also plans to work with microfinance experts in Peru to make small loans to families to purchase the equipment and improve facilities. A student supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer will also join this team.
"The villagers in the region stated their interest in selling dairy products at the larger markets, but they also recognize that they lack the appropriate technologies and conditions needed to achieve certification," Lennox said. "It will be exciting and challenging for us to apply our engineering know-how to help them attain this important goal."
"It's rewarding to be involved with a real-world project and know that your hard work can have a direct positive impact on not just one person, but an entire community," Cyganowski said.
The project builds on past humanitarian engineering work by Montoya to challenge students to develop new, affordable technologies to help improve the quality of life in rural Peru.
These student innovations are currently installed or housed in the project flagship Ecological Home for the Andes, which serves as a community training site in Langui and aims to showcase the technologies for nearby communities.
The students hope to have their new pasteurization system designed, operational, and in place at the Ecological Home for the Andes in one year.
"This wonderful group of students clearly realizes their own potential," Montoya said.
"Often our students are reminded of the rich history of this institution, but these students are now making their own history, one that is more inclusive and in-tune with our present challenges. They are not just smart; they have the courage to take on big challenges and the determination to engineer solutions and implement them in ways that make a difference in the world beyond Rensselaer."
Along with Rensselaer, the other ESW SEED grant winners were Stanford University, the University of California Berkeley, and Purdue University.
Founded in 2001, the ESW is "an engaged technical community with the vision of changing the world through engineering education, innovation, and practical action," and seeks to stimulate and foster an increased and more diverse community of engineers, as well as infuse sustainability into the practice and studies of every engineer.
Source - Solar daily
The group of engineers, led by Assistant Professor Lupita D. Montoya, was one of four student teams nationally to win a highly competitive Summer Engineering Experience in Development (SEED) grant from nonprofit volunteer organization Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW).
The project aims to help the Langui and Canas community in southern Peru by developing affordable, solar-powered pasteurization equipment.
Many families in the region have dairy cows and produce milk, yogurt, and cheeses on a small scale, but cannot obtain certification to market these products because they lack proper sanitation equipment.
The new pasteurization systems will allow these families to meet governmental regulations and begin selling their dairy products and earning additional income.
"Currently farmers make dairy products for personal consumption and trade with neighbors. During our first trip people told us that they were looking to sell products beyond their town but needed certification," said team member Tara Clancy, an environmental engineering major at Rensselaer who graduates this week.
"Obtaining certification will enable farmers to strengthen their economic independence, but they won't be able to be certified without direct access to water, energy, and sanitary facilities. That's where we can start to implement appropriate technologies."
This summer, Montoya, Rensselaer mechanical engineering doctoral student Erin Lennox, and rising junior Anna Cyganowski will volunteer their time in Langui and Lima, Peru. Along with working on the design and engineering of pasteurization devices, they will partner with students from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú (PUCP) to investigate the social and economic aspects of creating a dairy enterprise.
This effort will include examining how the community currently produces dairy products, looking into local manufacturing regulations, and studying the local marketplace.
The student team also plans to work with microfinance experts in Peru to make small loans to families to purchase the equipment and improve facilities. A student supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer will also join this team.
"The villagers in the region stated their interest in selling dairy products at the larger markets, but they also recognize that they lack the appropriate technologies and conditions needed to achieve certification," Lennox said. "It will be exciting and challenging for us to apply our engineering know-how to help them attain this important goal."
"It's rewarding to be involved with a real-world project and know that your hard work can have a direct positive impact on not just one person, but an entire community," Cyganowski said.
The project builds on past humanitarian engineering work by Montoya to challenge students to develop new, affordable technologies to help improve the quality of life in rural Peru.
These student innovations are currently installed or housed in the project flagship Ecological Home for the Andes, which serves as a community training site in Langui and aims to showcase the technologies for nearby communities.
The students hope to have their new pasteurization system designed, operational, and in place at the Ecological Home for the Andes in one year.
"This wonderful group of students clearly realizes their own potential," Montoya said.
"Often our students are reminded of the rich history of this institution, but these students are now making their own history, one that is more inclusive and in-tune with our present challenges. They are not just smart; they have the courage to take on big challenges and the determination to engineer solutions and implement them in ways that make a difference in the world beyond Rensselaer."
Along with Rensselaer, the other ESW SEED grant winners were Stanford University, the University of California Berkeley, and Purdue University.
Founded in 2001, the ESW is "an engaged technical community with the vision of changing the world through engineering education, innovation, and practical action," and seeks to stimulate and foster an increased and more diverse community of engineers, as well as infuse sustainability into the practice and studies of every engineer.
Source - Solar daily
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