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Project Updates
New! Sustainability
and Thailand's Solar Home System: Is it still achievable? (pdf,
1.9M)
Fredrik Bjarnegard. 6 July 2006. Renewable Energy Conference, BITEC, Bangkok.
(ppt,
2.5M)
New! Umphiem
refugee camp hydraulic ram pump & solar water pumping training.
(pdf, 347K)
June 2006.
Sustainability
and Solar Home Systems: data from BGET'S experience in Tak. (Thai
ppt, 1.8M)
Presentation to Awbawtaw officials at meeting related to transfer of ownership
of SHS Bangkok. 8 June 2006.
Threatened
Sustainability: the Uncertain Future of Thailand's Solar Home Systems.
(doc, 1.4M)
Andrew Lynch, Chris Greacen, Salinee Tavaranan, Fredrik Bjarnegard. Paper
commissioned by EU. 6 June 2006.
BGET semi-annual report (pdf, 104K) April 2006
June
2006 Home Power Magazine Article: "Solar Lights for a Dark Time in Burma"
(pdf, 113K)
Discusses BGET's work to provide solar electricity for 28 Karen clinics
in Burma war zones. High
resolution version (pdf, 3370K)
Jan
25 - Feb 15, 2006 Huai Kra Thing microhydro installation (pdf,
1404K)
Installation of Thailand's first "pump as turbine" micro-hydro
project. Collaborative project with village residents, refugee camp engineering
students, US students, and NGOs providing 3 kW to Haui Kra Thing village
- Thai version ( pdf, 1475K)
Nov 29
- Dec 1, 2005 Microhydro survey & performance upgrade (pdf,
416K)
Survey for micro-hydro in Huai Kra Thing (scheduled installation Feb
2006); upgrade of installation in Mae Sa Pau (installed Feb 2005)
- Huai Kra Thing micro-survey (xls, 700K)
14-25
November, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 566K)
Mae Wa Luang technician training (solar diagnosis & repair); refugee camp
vocational student training (solar survey)
31
Oct - 11 November, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 36K)
Meeting with Solartron Ltd on equipment failures and funding; presentations
to or-bor-tors in Tha Song Yang and Mae Ramat to arrange trainings
17
- 28 October, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 749K)
Back-to-back 3-day technician trainings at Tambon Mae Tan and Tambon Mae Song
BGET Kick-off report covering activities through 19 October (pdf, 981K)
Sept, 2005
- PV and Microhydro System Training in Mae La Refugee Camp (Photo
journal)
Five-day training for 60 students from the Mae La Engineering Study Program.
Sept, 2005 - PV
technician training in Huai Kra Ting village, Tak province
(Photo journal)
Three-day training on solar electric maintenance and repair for 12 local technicians.
February,
2005 - PV solar/microhydro workshop (photo journal)
Before we knew we were BGET, we taught a workshop on solar electricity for medics
from remote Karen Burma, for Thai villagers, and for refugee camp vocational
students. In the hands-on class participants built 5 solar electric systems
destined for Karen Burma clinics and one for the Mae La refugee camp. The training
covered O&M and repair of Thai government-installed PV systems, as well as theory
and hands-on micro-hydro training.
Workshop on solar electricity for medics from Karen Burma. Participants built 11 solar electric systems that were subsequently installed in remote clinics.
January 2004 - E Wi Jo community micro-hydro
project (photo journal).
E Wi Jo is downstream from Kre Khi about 3 hours by foot. This site provides
one light in each of the village's 40 households. Palang Thai provided turbine
design, system design, and construction oversight.
November, 2003 - Biogas Workshop, Mytkyina, Burma
(photo journal)
Palang Thai hands-on workshop taught by Govinda Devkota, a Nepali biogas expert
who has trained many of the the thousands of masons that have built over 123,000
biogas digestors in Nepal.
- Workshop report with info about digestor construction & operation (pdf, 300K)
- Digestor design drawings (doc, 1.3M)
January 2003 - Kre Khi community micro-hydro
project, Thailand (photo journal)
Palang Thai worked with villagers, the Taipei Overseas Peace Service (TOPS)
and US high school students to build this 500 watt microhydro that provides
light for a school, temple, clinic, and for village battery charging.
- Light in a Mountain Village an account of Kre Khi construction by Sam Lai
A report by Chris Greacen on renewable energy workshops on solar and micro-hydropower in Myitkyina and Tougnoo Burma that appeared in the Dec 2003 issue of Home Power Magazine.