ePowerBooster: Saving fuel in hybrid energy systems Apr 11, 2019 Karim El Alami and Cyril Colin met at UC Berkeley in California, whilst studying for their degrees in civil and environmental engineering. Their drive was... Read more
Great Lakes Energy: Mahama Refugee Camp mini-grids Mar 28, 2019 Recently Alp Tilev, Managing Director of Great Lakes Energy in Rwanda, got in touch with me about their Mahama refugee camp project - to build... Read more
Sustainable micro grid brings hope in the Himalayas Feb 7, 2019 The bright light of hope has been kindled in Chetang - a remote community of subsistence farmers in the Himalayas, 50km from Kathmandu. Surrounded by... Read more
DIY ingenuity: Hydro Power MkII – Part II Jan 23, 2019 Just over a year ago there was a blog about Hydro Power, in which Markus Pauritsch used a Victron MPPT solar charge controller loaded and... Read more
DIY ingenuity: Hydro Power MkII – Part I Jan 3, 2019 You may recall a year ago a blog about Hydro Power, in which Markus Pauritsch used a MPPT solar charge controller loaded and driven by... Read more
GreenAkku – Victron Energy powered Tiny House Aug 21, 2018 Victron Energy dealer Bosswerk GmbH & Co. KG or GreenAkku as they are usually known are based in Nettetal, about 30km West of Düsseldorf. They... Read more
Enersoltec S.A. – Off-Grid business in Paraguay May 24, 2018 If your business is solar energy then what better way to promote and demonstrate the competence of solar than by running an off-grid solar, battery,... Read more
Cambodia: PV Powered Off-Grid School May 3, 2018 This guest blog (by Off-Grid Energy Australia) relates to a CoGood Australia project which has brought much needed electricity to Kompheim Village School in Cambodia,... Read more
Konstanzer Hütte – Power by necessity with Victron Energy Apr 26, 2018 A change in this chalet's water supply meant their primary hydro power energy source became intermittent. The diesel generator - intended only as a backup... Read more