Solar Energy: A Solution To The Crisis
The town of Suarez, about 40 kilometers from Montevideo, has used solar energy to extend network lighting.
It is not the traditional place of the typical Uruguayan people. It is a place that was “modernized”, looking for solar energy efficiency and reduces electric costs.
If the project works, it could serve as a model for other cities in the country, under the economic crisis and the steadily increasing price of electricity would be a way to reduce costs of energy.
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“It is known that the energy crisis will become increasingly acute, and the management and the state must take action. We decided to do a test by installing lights in the public square and powered by solar energy, if it works, then apply to all lighting, “he explained to BBC World Leonardo D’Andrea, of the Local Board of Suárez.
“The illumination of Canelones (town in southern Uruguay) was very poor and a few years ago were changed to sodium lamps, which are modern but have a high consumption and generate significant pollution. Each outbreak cost 670 pesos per month (approximately U.S. $ 30) and we know that lamps with LED savings between 70% and 90% of energy costs, “he said.
“The light of the future”
LEDs are semiconductor diodes with very low power consumption and high brightness. Let be powered by solar energy (plus electric) and can be illuminated for three or four days with the full charge of a battery, so a few days of rain would not be synonymous with obscurity.
“We recycle fixtures that were in use. The media were to pull, we rebuild. Instead they put a glass Anti-vandalism polycarbonate (plastic kind) and adapted in some lamps made in Uruguay,” he explained. Support was installed a solar panel that receives energy needed to power the light.
The authorities are checking the performance and savings, and then encouraged to invest in the technology needed to manufacture the lamps in the country and expand the project. Saving energy by using LEDs connected to the grid is between 70 and 90%, but increases to 100% when connected to solar panels.
“The idea is to manufacture the product in Uruguay with the intention of replacing the lighting with high consumption of these low-consumption lamps, while using local manpower,” he concluded Marchelli.
“With the energy crisis, and the cost of electricity, which rises continuously, trying to find solutions, even on a small scale,” said Nicholas Vilaró, director general of the municipality of Works Canelones.
The municipality has a monthly energy cost of 10 million pesos (about U.S. $ 400,000) and about 70% is for lighting, the official explained, “so we are interested in achieving any savings we release funds for be focused in other areas. ”
That’s why planning and expand the evidence. “Now let’s install some lighting devices 20, 20 columns that have a solar panel with its battery power and engine light to check its efficiency,” he said.
“Maybe in a few years and is not a column with its engine light but with a solar panel behind,” he added.
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Electricity consumption is one of the major problems in the world, not just in uruguay. This contributes to economic crisis.
Industrial countries must look into this, we could save energy and I also believe this could help irradicate the economic crisis we’re faced with nowadays because if could reduce the energy consumption by 70 percent then we alot more for other areas of development.
It say there that “maybe in a few years”
why wait for years when we could look through it now…
we are at crisis, the world is at crisis. we act now, why wait?
Electricity consumption is one of the major problems in the world, not just in uruguay. This contributes to economic crisis.
Industrial countries must look into this, we could save energy and I also believe this could help irradicate the economic crisis we’re faced with nowadays because if we could reduce the energy consumption by 70 percent then we can alot more for other areas of development.
It says there that “maybe in a few years”
why wait for years when we could look through it now…
we are at crisis, the world is at crisis. we act now, why wait?