{"id":18010,"date":"2019-10-22T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=18010"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:59:44","slug":"nanogrid-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/nanogrid-togo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanogrid TOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOLERGIE<\/a> is changing lives for the better in the West African country of Togo.<\/p>\n

Because of their huge land area, 75% of the population of West African countries live beyond the reach of the national electricity grid and have no access to a dependable source of electricity. Solergie<\/em> plans to install the infrastructure – in the form of nano grids – which provides people living in rural locations with the clean, reliable electricity they need to empower themselves. It changes everything – and has an impact which most of us can only imagine.<\/p>\n

Home study for children, after dark. The means to charge a mobile phone – without which they are useless. And the possibilities for entrepreneurship: sewing machines; electric razors; television\/cinema’s; iced-cream shops; irrigation for farming – all of which are key if rural communities are to thrive in locations where there is no grid-electricity infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout Solergie, I have to work with scissors and a mechanical razor.\u00a0With the energy provided by Solergie, I can use an electric shaver. I have a modern system now.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Solegiebox nanogrid …typical System<\/strong><\/p>\n

A SolergieBox is a solar power system which can offer electricity to 8 clients, creating a very small electrical grid – or nano-grid. Each nano-grid can be expanded according to customer demand, but a typical installation for 600Wh per day consists of:<\/p>\n