Energy Updates
Liberia Finds Solar Power Gets Things Moving Again
Liberians who live, study, or work outside the limited electric grid of the capital, Monrovia, do not have affordable, reliable light. Less than two percent of rural areas and about ten percent of the urban capital area have modern energy sources. Renewable energy is emerging to fill the need for power, allowing the rebuilding country to leapfrog over polluting fuels into “green” energy using the country’s abundance of sun and water.
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PoweringHealth.org:
USAID’s Online Resource for Electrifying Developing Country Health Facilities
PoweringHealth.org is a web based resource designed by USAID’s Energy Team with the objective of disseminating information and best practices on the provision of reliable energy services to developing country health facilities.
Over the years, significant effort and funds have been dedicated to providing energy services to rural health facilities – with a particular focus on expanding the vaccination cold chain. The global push to deliver antiretroviral drugs and services to HIV-positive patients worldwide, have introduced new demands for electricity in health facilities with little or no access to reliable power.
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