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Solar Power in East Timor International Projects Group
Michael O’Connell
Alternative Technology
Association
The Vision (2002)
“ the power authority will meet the needs for electricity throughout East Timor, thus supporting economic productivity and quality of life for all citizens, and pursue indigenous resources to displace imported fuels. .... Progress will rest heavily on the ability of the power authority to reach poorer regions and more distant districts to support agricultural and industrial development.” National Development Plan 2002
The Vision (2007)
“Reducing the intensity of energy
dependence and minimizing the import
flow, through the use of alternative and
renewable energy sources, ..…”
Program for the legislation period 2007-
2012, the IV. Constitutional GoTL
The reality
• Low levels of service for all Timor
• Regular power outages and brown out
• What do you do with 130V
• Service Delivery: 24, 12, 6, 0 hours
The Silver Bullet-The
electrification of Timor • A National HV distribution network connecting all
major towns, 630km of 150kV and 10 substations
• “Heavy fuel oil” powered generators operating on North and South Coasts with installed capacity of 180MW
• ADB 2025 forecast 109MW demand
• $400m +++
The Renewable Energy Policy
• 451 megawatts (energy self sufficiency)
• Run of the river hydro + pumped storage (252MW)
• Wind power (72MW)
• Small, medium and large scale solar
• Grid dependant
• Report unreleased and legislation on-hold
Remote and Rural Communities
• Mortality rates
• 185,000 of 225,000 households without
electricity (Loy, 2008)
• $200-$400 p/a household income
• $50-100 p/a on energy services (kerosene)
• 60kg of firewood per week
Energy and Development
Improving energy services is integral to the
development process
Electric Lighting
- Improves education, income generation, social
cohesion and security
- Reduces health impacts from respiratory
disease, eye strain and burns
Quality • No installation standards, or QC
mechanisms in place
• Development of national standards
• Specifications of equipment
• Capacity Development to audit
installation quality
Projects •Overview
•Partners and Supporters
•Timor-Leste Solar Power Training Project
•Oesilo Water Pumping Project
•Village Lighting Schemes
•Maintenance Review
•Why Solar Power Projects
•Projects for your community with the International Projects Group
•Volunteering Opportunities
Overview
•a wonderful partnership between
• Timorese communities
• local administration
• Australian volunteers
• community groups
• electrical and renewable
energy industries
Overview
• Village Lighting Scheme
• Local People trained to install and
maintain small lighting systems
• Over 800 households now have
solar lights
• Larger system in community
Centres
•Training and Support
Partners and Supporters
• Incredible support from our 5,500 members and
industries and businesses, local governments and
other Non-profit organisations including Rotary
Partners and Supporters
• Large Tafe style train the trainers
• Smaller training session for VLS
• Ad-hoc training of local people in
remote communities as part of
system installations
Oesilo Water Pumping
Project • Small town located in
mountainous region of the
Oecusse enclave in East Timor
• women and children carrying 10
litre water containers on their
heads, up to five kilometres
• solar pumping system provide
12,000 litres per to holding tank
Some Other Projects
Children on the Edge
Project Need: The Children on the Edge
playcenter provides a vital environment for
learning for the children on
Viqueque. This system provides necessary
electrical services for the site.
Description: This system consisted of a 750W
24V solar array charging a 400Ah battery bank
(8 x 200Ah 6v sonnenschein). A 40A Victron
Centaur charger was also installed to provide
additional charging for the town power supply.
Volunteer team: Duncan MacGregor, Nathan
Martin,
Project Sponsor: Bodyshop UK
Some Other Projects
Oecussi Community Lighting - at Mahata, (Nitibe)
community centre, Maunaben (Pante
Macassar) medical clinic
Project Need: These systems are part of an ongoing
scheme to provide lighting for community centers
and medical
clinics around Oecussi.
Description: Basic lighting systems consisting of
80W BP panel, 100Ah battery and 12v DC lights.
Volunteer team: Bill Bennett, Anton Cabal
Project Sponsor: Whitehorse Friends of Oecussi
Some Other Projects LAHO Silk Factory
Project Need: The LAHO Project produces silk and other woven products
from their farm near Bacau. The
management required a refrigeration system to keep the silkworm eggs dormant
as part of controlling the life cycle of
the eggs and ensuring production could be fully managed from Timor. The system
installed aimed to power the
refrigerator in their incubation room.
Description: The system consisted of a 24V 640W array, charging a 330Ah
battery bank. The fridge was operated from
a 1700W selectronic inverter.
Issues: A number of issues came out of this project. Paramount amongst
those was that the refrigerator supplied used
three times the power as that originally specified. An alternative refrigerator was
supplied by the ATA on a trial basis
and further improvements will be made to tighten the temperature tolerances of
this refrigerator.
Volunteer team: Joshua Backwell, Anton Vikstrom
Project Sponsor: ILO
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Volunteering Opportunities
• System Design
• Planning
• Fund Raising
• Logistics
• Co-ordination with Friendship Groups
• Installation
• Training
Acknowledgements & Resources
• Alternative Technology Association –
www.ata.org.au