PV in India [RE-wrenches]

[Jeff Lahl]

Hello Joel and Wrenches,
I am currently doing design and consulting work for
the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), a non-profit
that does solar electrification in developing
countries. We recently completed a site survey for the
first of 3 villages in Northern Nigeria that will be
getting lights, water pumps and vaccine refrigerators.
SELF has done other projects around the world - check
out their web site at www.self.org
Robert Freling, SELF's director reports that there is
enormous interest coming in from many countries but
that the hold-up of course, is getting funding. Anyone
know where to find some money for these kinds of
projects? 

(the U.S.DOE is a prime funder of the Nigeria project)

Jeff Lahl
jefflahl at yahoo.com

--- joeldavidson at earthlink.net wrote:
> Hello Ray,
> Now I'm at the Singapore airport checking my mail. A
> lot of people got their first taste of/for PV in the
> Peace Corp overseas. I was a Vista Volunteer in
> Madison County, Arkansas (second poorest county in
> the second poorest state in the U.S.) when I put in
> my first little PV system. The Arkansas Ozarks are
> Fat City compared to some of the villages I visited.
> Most Americans could afford to give a 10W or 20W
> module for home lighting to someone in need. Who is
> organizing PV aid to people in developing countries?
> Best regards,
> Joel Davidson
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ray Walters remotech at taosnm.com
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:09:46 -0600
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: PV in India [RE-wrenches]
> 
> 
> 
> I have always said that the people who need PV the
> most are the ones who
> can least afford it. Now I am more than ever
> convinced that this is true.
> 
> >Best regards,
> >Joel Davidson
> >
>  I agree absolutely.
> I went in to solar in the Peace corp to help the
> less fortunate, but there
> are plenty of people right here in New Mexico that
> can't afford  some
> sorely needed PV. Unfortunately to support my
> family, I have had to
> concentrate on the high end market lately. I still
> have some used PV and
> batteries that I move at cost, but going out to
> install it anymore....it
> just doesn't work out.
> 
> Get grant funding to cover our costs and I'd be
> happy to set people up with
> sensible little systems anywhere or do overseas
> training seminars. Just a
> fraction of the cost of some of the military
> ordinance being dropped daily
> could buy a lot of PV and make us some friends in
> the rest of the world again.
> But the money never goes where you want it to go or
> does what you want it
> to do: the pump paid with UNICEF funds thats
> watering a sheik's private
> garden, the last vestiges of an indigenous culture
> lost to PV powered TV
> and internet.
> The ironies of trying to help are many, but I think
> solar is still the answer.
> I have struggled to help, seen solar fail as well as
> succeed, felt guilty
> for making a living from my work and now I'm over it
> all: I'm going to do
> solar because I like it. Because its better than
> making A-bombs, because
> it's ...... what I do. And if sometimes we can help
> those that need it the
> most: Well maybe we can die a little happier.
> 
> Sincerely
> SolarRay
> 
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