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Elizabeth Mukwimba is a 62-year-old Tanzanian smallholder farmer who now has solar lighting and a cleaner cookstove in her home, thanks to schemes backed by UK aid.
Elizabeth has had an M-Power solar panel and lights fitted in her home by Off Grid Electric, a private sector company dedicated to providing sustainable, affordable energy to people in developing countries who aren't connected to the electricity grid.
It means that Elizabeth now has lighting at home at night, which means she doesn't have to buy expensive kerosene. The money she's saved already has helped her put a new tin roof on her house. It also means her grandchildren can read and do their homework in the evening.
She also has a 'clean cookstove', as seen in this picture. These cookstoves provide a safer, more durable and energy efficient means of cooking as opposed to traditional open fire cooking. The ceramic, metal-encased design means that much smaller amounts of wood or charcoal are needed, thus reducing the amount of time and money people need to spend on procuring fuel. The design is therefore also much healthier, producing much less smoke or carbon monoxide.
"I feel much better because of the solar lighting and the cookstove", says Elizabeth.
"Before, I sometimes had to choose between buying vegetables to eat, or buying kerosene to light the lamps with at night. Sometimes we used to have to rely just on matches for lighting in the dark.
"But now I'm not having to buy kerosene and the cookstove uses much less fuel, so I'm saving money and not worrying so much about how to provide for my family. It means I can start to save money to hopefully build a new house in the future".
In less than 2 years, Off Grid Electric has installed solar power systems in over 22,000 homes across Tanzania, meaning many more people now have access to cheap, renewable electricity - a vital step forward in a country where less than 14% of the population are connected to the electricity grid.
The Tanzania Improved Cook Stoves programme, implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV, aims to provide improved cooking facilities for 45,000 people in Tanzania's Lake Zone region by 2017. 28,500 people have already benefitted.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.
I like this photo as for me there is so much going on. In the foreground is Torre Castinuovo build in the fifteenth century just behind Castilnuove beach in Conil de al Frontera, Cádiz. It was originally built as a defense against invaders and was later used as watch tower for the Almadabra Tuna fishing. In 1755 the tower was almost completely destroy by a tsunami created by the Lisbon Earthquake. The tower was restored to its original in 1995.
Behind are very modern wind turbines, so vital now to our existence today . This stretch of the Atlantic Coast in Cadiz produces lots of clean electricity and has done for quite some time. In fact just further down the coast the older windmills are being replaced by more efficient one.
The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
cleanenergysummit.org/
Shot on the Mamiya 7 mk2 using Kodak Ektar 100 color film. Not to be used or blogged without my permission. Picture a world with no fossil fuels, clean energy, promoting health and well being to our families.
Hussein D'Oto, an artisan potter making a 'clean cookstove' in Tanzania.
Hussein has been making clay pots for 18 years, but has recently received training in how to also make 'clean cookstoves', as part of a UK-supported programme being implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV.
The clean cookstoves can use wood or charcoal for fuel, but use less of either, and produce less smoke, than traditional open fire cooking - meaning they're more fuel efficient, and less harmful in terms of the fumes they emit. This in turn means that people have to spend less money on buying charcoal, less time collecting firewood, and are less exposed to smoke and fumes that affect their health.
Hussein is already using one of the cookstoves in his own home, and can already produce up to 50 clay stoves per day. He's now looking to partner with a local metal worker, so that they can be clad and then sold in larger towns where there is lots of demand for them.
The SNV project ensures consistent quality of cookstoves through training and the introduction of standardised production methods. since the start of the project in 2012, about 28,500 people have benefitted from clean cookstoves across Tanzania's Lake Zone.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
The Punta de Lima wind farm on the east coast of Puerto Rico remains still - with damage to the wind turbines clearly visible. Some blades were broken off, others stripped of their leading edges.
Humacao, PR
Hadija and her family with an Ensol solar lighting kit, Bariadi, Tanzania, August 2015. The kit provides solar panels that provide light and electricity to charge mobile phones and radios. The Ensol kits are supplied through local community finance organisations. Families like Hadija's pay in a small amount of money each month in return for the kit. Once they have paid the cost of it off, it is theirs to keep. UK aid is supporting small-scale solar schemes like across Tanzania working in partnership with the Dutch NGO SNV and other organisations.
Picture: Russell Watkins/DFID
Burgos, Spain.
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Elizabeth Mukwimba is a 62-year-old Tanzanian smallholder farmer who now has solar lighting and a cleaner cookstove in her home, thanks to schemes backed by UK aid.
Elizabeth has had an M-Power solar panel and lights fitted in her home by Off Grid Electric, a private sector company dedicated to providing sustainable, affordable energy to people in developing countries who aren't connected to the electricity grid.
It means that Elizabeth now has lighting at home at night, which means she doesn't have to buy expensive kerosene. The money she's saved already has helped her put a new tin roof on her house. It also means her grandchildren can read and do their homework in the evening.
"I feel much better because of the solar lighting", says Elizabeth.
"Before, I sometimes had to choose between buying vegetables to eat, or buying kerosene to light the lamps with at night. Sometimes we used to have to rely just on matches for lighting in the dark.
"But now I'm not having to buy kerosene, so I'm saving money and not worrying so much about how to provide for my family. It means I can start to save money to hopefully build a new house in the future".
In less than 2 years, Off Grid Electric has installed solar power systems in over 22,000 homes across Tanzania, meaning many more people now have access to cheap, renewable electricity - a vital step forward in a country where less than 14% of the population are connected to the electricity grid.
The Tanzania Improved Cook Stoves programme, implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV, aims to provide improved cooking facilities for 45,000 people in Tanzania's Lake Zone region by 2017. 28,500 people have already benefitted.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.
Holiday lights are shining a little greener this winter in several remote First Nations
communities that are making big strides to reduce their reliance on diesel fuel.
In 2016, First Nations communities in BC received approximately $3.2 million through the First
Nations Clean Energy Business Fund more than $2.2 million through revenue-sharing
agreements and nearly $1 million in capacity and equity funding.
Pictured: T’Sou-ke Nation became the first Aboriginal community in the world to be designated a solar community. They have installed three solar demonstration projects. One demonstrates how remote ‘off grid’ communities can economically switch from diesel to solar. Learn more about this:http://climate.gov.bc.ca/feature/solar-powered-tsou-ke/
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016ARR0067-002883
At first I didn't like the hydro tower, but then I started to like the juxtaposition of man's made power structure to nature's own. Day 239 in the bag, early!
Enjoy in the light box - It's Sunday!
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The Punta de Lima wind farm on the east coast of Puerto Rico remains still - with damage to the wind turbines clearly visible. Some blades were broken off, others stripped of their leading edges.
Humacao, PR
This is a child's educational toy. It is a salt water fuel cell engine car kit. Designed to teach children about new forms of clean energy. The engine uses a magnesium sheet and salt water to produce electricity to power an electric motor which in turn, through a series of gears, turns the wheels. If only my car could run on salt water!
116 of 121 picture in 2021 - World of science
In the 1990's, the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) began an aggressive program of economic development resulting in 90% band employment. Today, the OIB owns or has interests in 12 businesses and over the past decade, has generated more than $220 million in capital spending through business projects and programs that employ representatives from 38 First Nations across Canada.
To support greater First Nations participation in the clean energy sector, applications are now being accepted until the end of January for the next round of funding from the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund (FNCEBF).
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/ministries/aboriginal-relations-and-reconc...
Technician checks on the solar panels installed at the Lopburi Solar Power Plant. The 73-megawatt Lopburi Solar Farm is the largest solar photovoltaic project in the world. The power plant intends to add 11 megawatts of capacity by 2012 to bring the total to 84 megawatts. The Lopburi Solar Farm is integral to Thailand's efforts to generate energy from renewable sources.
Project Result:
Sun, Partnerships Power Thailand Solar Project
In Thailand, One of the World's Largest Solar Energy Farms
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