{"id":23886,"date":"2022-01-07T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=23886"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:29:38","slug":"no-power-no-fuel-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/no-power-no-fuel-no-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"No Power. No Fuel. No problem."},"content":{"rendered":"

The largest Haitian electrical retail store –\u00a0Thompson Electronics\u00a0– who sell consumer products for the home had to do some Blue Sky thinking after experiencing increasing difficulties in keeping their own lights on. Fortunately Haiti’s Luciano Bolivar<\/em>, Steeve Cabane<\/em> and the team at 509Solar<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>knew how to help.<\/p>\n

As a country Haiti is facing difficulties on a number of fronts, making ‘normal life’ quite difficult at the moment. The area Power Grid (EDH), for example,\u00a0is only rarely able to provide power to consumers – making commerce very challenging.<\/p>\n

Stores like Thompson Electronics and other businesses occupying the same building had been relying on a private generator running from seven in the morning to seven at night – but the added difficulty of a national fuel crisis has made even that remedy untenable.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

509Solar\u00a0is a\u00a0Victron Energy installer based in Port-au-Prince – they were asked to design and install a solar-based microgrid. \u00a0Luciano says:<\/p>\n

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The Victron Energy Microgrid installation changed everything from the perspective of people and work because now, with this system, the site no longer has the noise and pollution of a generator and we have created peace-of-mind for the owners, who were stressed not knowing how they were going to keep the building and businesses trading\u00a0without fuel for the generator. The city’s electricity is almost non-existent.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fortunately for Thompson Electronics the new system was installed in time for some busy December trading.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The really tidy 60kVA power installation comprises:<\/p>\n