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Monitoring of Solar Home System (SHS)
Overview
Solar home systems (SHS) are stand-alone Photovoltaic (PV) systems that offer a cost-effective mode of supplying amenity power for lighting and appliances to remote off-grid households. In rural areas, that are not connected to the Portal:Grid, SHS can be used to meet a household's energy demand fulfilling basic electric needs. Globally SHS provide power to hundreds of thousands of households in remote locations where electrification by the grid is not feasible.[1]
► More information on Solar Home Systems (SHS)
Studies on Solar Home Systems (SHS)
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Solar Home Systems. Experiences with applications of solar PV for households in developing countries (pdf, 1,11 MB) (by F.D.J. Nieuwenhout et al., ECN, September 2000; literature survey: inventory of experiences with solar photovoltaic applications for households in developing countries)
- Electricity and Sustainable Development: Impacts of Solar Home Systems in Rural Bangladesh (pdf, 4,01 MB) (diploma thesis by Michael Blunck, May 2007)
- CDM and SHS in Bangladesh (pdf, 6.13 MB) Master Thesis by Susanne Schwan, 2010
- Impact of Solar Electrification on Health Centres in Uganda (pdf, 542 KB) PREEEP, September 2009
- Impact of SHS on Households and SMEs in Uganda (pdf, 913 KB) PREEEP, September 2009
Energising Development (EnDev) Monitoring and Evaluation
Further Information
References
- ↑ GTZ (2007): Eastern Africa Resource Base: GTZ Online Regional Energy Resource Base: Regional and Country Specific Energy Resource Database: I - Energy Technology
