“WE OFFER A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO BRING ELECTRICITY TO COMMUNITIES IN THE LARGEST RAINFOREST IN THE PLANET”
Since 2017, we bring the Luz en Casa's electricity service to the Peruvian Amazonia. We started in the Napo river basin, with a pilot project cofunded by Fondecyt-Concytec (Peru's National Fund for Technological, Scientific Development and Technological Innovation) to validate the technology and management model proposed, which gave results of high satisfaction of the users with the offered service and verifying, thus, the validity of the proposal. Then, we escalated the inititative by the Napo, Amazonas and Ucayali basins with cofunding from AECID -Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation-.
Today, acciona.org is escalating Luz en Casa Amazonia in Loreto, as well as Cajamarca and Amazonas, and has added new technologies such as higher performance solar home systems and the development of a service delivery model through photovoltaic micro grid.
By this way, we extend a clean solution of electrification for rural, indigenous remote communities, as well as we have made possible minimizing the use of fossil fuels, candles, oil lamps or batteries for torches, radios, etc., which is impacting positively in their health, economy, education...
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CONTEXT AND BEGINNINGS OF LUZ EN CASA AMAZONIA
- The access to electricity for all in the Amazonian communities is not feasible by conventional means.
- These communities are settled in remote locations with exclusively fluvial access, extreme weather & rain conditions, and several social conflicts.
- The grid extension to those settlements implies high investment, operation & maintenance costs. In addition, it impacts negatively in the environment.
- Within this setting, we proposed an innovative electricity delivery model with renewable energy and technical-economic sustainability and affordability criteria.
- We conceived a pilot project to validate the technology -third generation solar home systems- and the management model -electricity service in return of an affordable fee to pay through an integrated Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system-.
- This service is given supported on Centros Luz en Casa located strategically in the operation area.
- The place selected to start this project was Peru, where we execute Luz en Casa since 2009, and specifically the Napo river basin, where we can develop synergies with other entities working in that area.
HIGHLIGHTING PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED WITHIN LUZ EN CASA AMAZONIA