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Solar Powered Water Systems (SPWS) in Humanitarian Context – Making Sense of SPWS Expansion - This webinar, second in the four-part series, will discuss the different parameters for solarization of existing water schemes in the humanitarian context. Water Mission International will introduce retrofitting existing water schemes into solar. Rocky Mountain Institute will discuss notions on overpumping and how to limit it. IOM UN Migration will then discuss the economic considerations for solar pumping schemes (eg. payback periods and cost savings). Read more... Thursday, 28 Jan at 2:00 pm CET (Registration link)
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Question: Mobile Charging through picoPV?
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Mobile Charging through picoPV?
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What is the impact of mobile phone charging / access to communication by picoPV systems? Is this impact comparable to the impact of traditional, grid-based electrification?
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Impacts
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With the widespread penetration of mobile phones, mobile phone charging will become a priority for many rural consumers. Therefore, PicoPV kits with mobile charging can tap into this market and provide affordable and cheap solutions to the rural consumers. However, the kit needs to be calibrated to function properly with the different mobile phones. Since, lighting is the biggest demand of the rural consumers, there might not be enough charge left for charging the mobile phones and it is necessary to advise the users to charge their phones during the day or to devise picoPV with greater capacity. Also, there is a possiblity for mobile network providers and picoPV suppliers to collaborate together to promote the use of mobile phones via PicoPV kits with mobile charging units.
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