"WE BRING ELECTRICITY TO COMMUNITIES WITHOUT ACCESS TO CONVENTIONAL ELECTRIFICATION IN CUSCO"
In 2022, we bring our 'Luz en Casa' rural electrification initiative to the Peruvian Department of Cusco from the Amazonia to provide access to basic electricity service, through third generation solar home systems, to high mountain and high rainforest remote communities.
'Luz en Casa Cusco' programme brings access to electricity for the first time with solar home systems that avoid the use of fossil fuels. We offer more than 6 hours of electric light per day, cell phone charging and radio or TV activity for a few hours. This service is in return of an affordable fee.
The management model replicates and adapts the one already implemented in the Peruvian Amazonia to the new context. To ensure the sustainability of the project, it is essential the implication of the local people: the beneficiaries, the members of the Photovoltaic Electrification Committees and the local entrepreneurs who provide local services.
The benefits of having access to clean energy services are directly reflected in the improvement of the quality of life of the beneficiaries and their environment: improved health, economic savings and environmentally friendly.
HOUSEHOLDS ATTENDED
PERSONS BENEFITED
CONTEXT
- The isolation conditions of households in the department of Cusco are extreme and they have not expectation of access to electricity by conventional ways.
- According to Peru's National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), 29.72% of households in Vilcabamba have not the public electricity service, as well as 16.19% of households in Santa Teresa, 15.27% in Machupicchu and 13.04% in Huayopata.
- The districts are located at altitudes from 900 to 6100 of elevation having severe weather most of the year and being a steep land.
- acciona.org and the Municipal Ecotourism Association of the Machupicchu - Choquequirao Inca Resistance, made up of municipalities of the four districts, created a Inter-Institutional Cooperation Framework Agreement to analyze the electricity problem and propose solutions.
