Power Grid Articles & Analysis: Older
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Islands in many cases have an unreliable grid which forces businesses to rely on alternate forms of energy such as diesel generators for backup. This increases the high electricity cost even more since the cost of diesel is volatile and increasingly expensive. Diesel costs € 1.50 /liter today which produces up to 4kWh of electricity which results in a price of € ...
We also thought of energy: Energy that could help build a more ecological electrical power supply. The existing power supply on the three separate islands of Kadavu, Lakeda and Rotuma around the Fijian mainland had been fully based on diesel generators. Now the SMA Fuel Save Controller 2.0 is helping to integrate solar energy into the power ...