Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
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Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not the key that
opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The Natural
Economic Order
Revised English edition, Peter
Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 11:
The
project provides for PV powered lighting for study purposes in each of the 200
or so tank localities included in the project area. Few of the areas will have a
suitable study room so suitable rooms will have to be built to qualify for the
PV lighting. Study rooms will be built under the LETS local currency system, and
each of the LETS members in that tank area would be debited for his/her share of
the building cost. As an incentive to build study rooms, the costs of the PV
lighting have been included in the general project costs. Over time, all 200
tank area groups may see fit to provide study areas for their students. The tank
commissions will be responsible for PV lighting in their
area
PV
lighting and/or PV refrigeration facilities for clinics within the project area
would also be the responsibility of the tank commissions where the clinics are
located. The situation concerning schools or clinics outside the project area
serving in part users living within the project area presents practical problems
which will need to be discussed case by case when the project is finalised.
PV
lighting or power sources needed for productive purposes will be financed on a
case by case basis using micro-credit
loans.
Financing PV
lighting or power sources for (home) systems not used for production can be
negotiated between individual users and the Local Bank when those users have
enough income to meet the extra cost. The terms of the hire-purchase loan and
lease agreements for Solar Home Systems will be agreed with the local bank
before the project starts.
Cost
of equipment
Cost of installation. Installation will be done under the LETS systems.
Total
cost Euro 105.000
The
project coordinator may instruct the groups who have installed the water pumping
installations to carry out the PV lighting installations and maintenance in the
clinics under the local money LETS system.
05.34.
11 INSTALLATION OF PV TELEVISION SETS (AND/OR COMPUTER SETS) FOR STUDY
PURPOSES.
Some
may wish to install a PV powered television set for educational use as well.
However, there are practical problems in managing TV sets, and these will need
further discussion when the project is being finalised. Purchase of a set may, for instance
depend on how much educational material is available in the local languages,
whether the study room supplied
offers a suitable weather-proof
environment for the television set, whether the set is adequately
protected against theft, and
This
is listed pro-memorium for further discussion as there are some practical
problems with the use of TV sets.
In
principle the tank commission can approve the installation of a PV operated TV
system (FOR STUDY PURPOSES) provided:
a) A study room has been built and
correctly protected against weather, dust, and theft
b) Sufficient didactic
material is available in the local language to justify the installation of a TV
set.
c)Whether
the project is able to supply maintenance back-up.
d)Warranty
is given that the TV set not be "confiscated" for purposes of "comfort" for
group vision of commercial TV programmes.
The
funds necessary for the installation in good faith of TV equipment and/or
computer sets for study purposes will be transferred from the project reserves,
where funds are provided for them in the balance sheet. These formal money funds
are paid back by the users into the Cooperative Local Development Fund over a
reasonable period of time agreed between the Project Management and the tank
commission in question. The rate of repayment may in some cases be the same for
all tank commissions, or it may vary from one tank commission to another on the
basis of the financial possibilities of the families served by each tank
commission.
The
project coordinator may instruct the groups who have installed the water pumping
installations to carry out the PV lighting installations and maintenance in the
clinics under the local money LETS system.
05.34.
20 INSTALLATION OF PV LIGHTING AND/OR TELEVISION AND/OR COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN
SCHOOLS
This
has been indicated pro-memorium. Whether PV lighting is needed in schools in
addition to the PV lighting already included at tank commission level for study
is unclear, but the possibility of beginning evening adult education classes
should not be overlooked.
05.34.
30 INSTALLATION OF PV LIGHTING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS IN CLINICS
Three
clinics have been included within the project area, each having one refrigerator
for vaccines.
A
budget of Euro 5.000 has been allowed for lighting and another Euro 5.000 for
refrigeration in each clinic.
Total
budget PV lighting and refrigeration in clinics: Euro 30.000
Cases
where clinics outside the project area serve users inside the project area are
mentioned pro-memorium and will need to be discussed on a case by case basis.
The
project coordinator may instruct the groups who have installed the water pumping
installations to carry out the PV lighting installations and maintenance in the
clinics under the local money LETS system.
Forwad: smoke hazard
elimination structures.
Back: waste
recycling structures.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.