Renewable Energy for the Developing World

Hands-on labs including constructing efficient cookstoves, building residential size biogas systems, and working with small-scale PV, will be interspersed with guest speakers describing lessons learned and successful projects.  Case studies will be presented on solar cooking, rural household electrification, appropriate building technologies, rural health care and micro-enterprises utilizing renewable energy. We will also learn about WE CARE Solar solar suitcases, which help bring much needed electricity to health centers around the world.  

Topics Include

• Solar Cooking & Food Drying
• Methane biodigestors
• Solar Electricity for Rural Development
• PV for Rural Health Care
• Technology Transfer
• Financing Household Solar Energy
• Microenterprises
• Integrating Women into RE Projects
• Procuring Funding
• Case Studies

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