• DocumentCode
    2655121
  • Title

    Simulation of Rural Electrification via Cellular-Enabled Micro-inverter

  • Author

    Unger, Kurtis ; Kazerani, Mehrdad

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 1 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Rural electrification, specifically in Africa and parts of Asia, is of major importance as it relates to development. This paper outlines how a cellular-enabled micro-inverter might facilitate access to electricity without depending on the standard power grid growth models. Using the infrastructure made available by the cellular phone industry, this device could be instrumental in developing rapid and economically beneficial rural electrification through consumer-based demand and organic growth.
  • Keywords
    digital simulation; invertors; power engineering computing; cellular phone industry; cellular-enabled microinverter; consumer-based demand; organic growth; power grid growth models; rural electrification simulation; Batteries; Biological system modeling; Economics; Electricity; Industries; Inverters; Lighting; distributed generation; micro-inverter; mobile banking; renewable energy; rural electrification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-634-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4595-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GHTC.2011.9
  • Filename
    6103597