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International Workshop on SMALL SCALE WIND ENERGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Reliability, Materials and Case Studies
September 14-16, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
Sponsored by:
Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, in the framework of Danida program
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in collaboration with the Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology (IEET) of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya The renewable energy technologies can provide sources of unlimited, cheap and clean energy to the people in developing countries. Especially, communities in remote and dry regions, which do not have easy access to the hydro power, and can not afford the installation of long transmission lines or using solar photovoltaic power, could benefit from the wider use of wind energy. Small wind turbines can present a good, economically viable and environmental friendly solution to provide remote villages in hilly areas with light and electricity. |
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British homes could soon be powered by "desert electricity", according to backers of a large solar energy project in the Sahara that will overtake current sites in Spain. The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) group claims a network of solar plants in north Africa harnessing the sun's rays will be the biggest in the world, dwarfing the current largest installation already running at Andasol in southern Spain. Planners hope the project will eventually provide 15 per cent of Europe's electricity by 2050, together with similar amounts of electricity for countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It is thought the energy demands of the world could be met by covering as little as one per cent of the world's deserts. |
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