• DocumentCode
    1186893
  • Title

    Photovolts for villages

  • Author

    Lysen, Erik H.

  • Author_Institution
    Netherlands Agency for Energy & the Environ., Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1994
  • Firstpage
    34
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    A relatively few successful applications of solar photovoltaic electric systems in developing countries may open the door to massive worldwide deployment of similar systems, conditioned upon affordable finance. The author discusses the implementation of PV systems from the 1960s to date, and then discusses five problems associated with such schemes: financial, institutional, interpersonal, infrastructural, and technical.<>
  • Keywords
    economics; photovoltaic power systems; PV systems; developing countries; finance; solar photovoltaic electric systems; Biomass; Costs; Earth; Petroleum; Photovoltaic cells; Pressing; Propagation losses; Refrigeration; Solar system; TV;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/6.328651
  • Filename
    328651
    • Link To Document
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