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Duffy, John. Village empowerment: sustainable solar solutions. 2005 SOLAR WORLD CONGRESS, 2005, Orlando, Flórida.
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Since 1998 University of Massachusetts Lowell students in service-learning projects have designed and helped install 60 systems, mostly running on renewable energy, in 25 villages and towns in the Andes Mountains of Peru for medical clinics, schools, and town halls. The villages in general have no grid electricity, one pay telephone (or none) per village, no space heating, houses made of adobe, and elevations up to 3500 m (11,400 ft.). The indigenous Quechua, or Inca, people in the villages survive on subsistence agriculture. The systems utilize photovoltaic modules to power transceiver radios, lights, computers, vaccine refrigerators, and other medical equipment in clinics as well as laptop computers and lights in schools. Water supply and purification systems for whole towns have been added as well as microhydro. To help make all these systems sustainable, we return every six months to the same two networks of villages. We are also helping to start microenterprises of aquaculture and of renting solar lanterns and LED headlamps.
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