Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
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: 28
September 2006
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.
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FILE 05.36
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structures.
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structures.
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planned service structures.
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