Solar-Storage Mini-Grid Makes an Impact at Africa’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Water, energy and food – the three are inextricably intertwined and increasingly challenging to access or provide on a basis that’s sustainable economically, environmentally and society-wide. That’s especially the case in isolated, resource-challenged parts of the world most vulnerable to climate change. Young innovative solar and cleantech startups, with support from multilateral sustainable energy and development organizations, are working to change that.
Embracing the values of broad-based socioeconomic equity and ecological sustainability, project partners are bringing solar powered water pumps, drinking water and highly efficient agricultural irrigation systems – as well electricity for general residential and other commercial use – to remote, rural areas of the developing world.
Germany’s Tesvolt recently received industry and public recognition for its work on the Nasho Project in Rwanda, an off-grid, “solar plus storage” lithium-iron phosphate-based (LFP) battery-based energy storage system (BESS) that is said to be the largest of its kind in the world.
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