Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Wind & Solar Hybrid Energy Project in Jumla district; Villagers are Happy


Introduction
Hybrid Dangiwada Wind and Solar Energy Project of capacity 26KW, an isolated Power system project, is constructed by Alternating Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC). Which is located in Mid-western Nepal; Tatopani-5 DandiWada, Jumla district. AEPC constructed this type of project very first time in the district in order to emphasis on rural Electrification Program. Jumla district lies in the Himalayan region and very far from the capital city Kathmandu. There is not the National Transmission Grid due to geographical difficulty. Most of the places are rural areas and underdeveloped. So, AEPC conduct an electrification Program for giving services to backward people.

     

                                            Fig: 26KW Hybrid Wind and Solar Project






Project Description
Name: Hybrid DangiWada Wind and Solar Energy Project
Location: Tatopani-5, Jumla Nepal
Capacity: 26KW
                15Kw from Wind turbine
                11Kw form Solar Power
Benefited household’s: 150
Project Chief: Ram Bahadur Rawal
Main sponsor: Alternating Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)
Electricity cost: Rs.150 per Month

General Layout


Project cost
Total cost: 25 million
AEPC contribution: 13.7 million
District development committee: 1.9 million
Village development committee: 1.05 million
Rest of cost by Public Participation

Social Impacts on Villagers after Electrification
In this village, it is the first time Electrification Program become boon for them during current energy crisis. People uses the special type of wood, named as SALLA for lighting. The fumes come from the wood is very harmful and adverse effects on health. Some of the villagers were suffered from heart disease, lung cancer, eye disorder etc.  There was fear of fire in home. The children were unable to study well. There is various Problems associated with lighting before this project. But, now locals became very happy after the project. Their lifestyle is changes now. They use electricity for lighting purpose. Children’s and their parents becomes happy. Villagers said that, “We are with another bright part of life, we are very happy and congratulated AEPC for helping poor people.”  It can be seen that after completion and operation of project, there is positive impact on society. 26Kw is the very small project but, becomes very huge for those people who do not use electricity before. Villagers must come to headquarter to charging mobile phone before. But the problems is solved out, there is no need to come to headquarter; which is very far from village by walk, for mobile charge.

Conclusion and recommendation

Hybrid renewable energy system is operated in rural area, becomes appropriate for the Electrification Program where there is lack of national grid. Villagers get benefited, changes their life style. Peoples becomes very happy and that project brings the life of people more easy and comfortable. It is necessary to increase capacity of the system. Peoples are unable to use electricity for cooking purpose. They are demanded to increase capacity up to 36 kw. So, I am highly recommended that to increase capacity of the Power system in order to get proper and sufficient use of electricity.

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