Solar electricity supply for „SAN MARCO “ in Kigali/Rwanda.

 

Since November 2010 the school and professional training centre for girls and young women „San Marco “ is supplied around the clock the whole year with electricity from the own solar electricity plant. Thus a regular and undisturbed instruction for 120 pupils became possible.

In Rwanda women carry as far as today the main load of the vital supply of their families and the economic reconstruction of the country. Only the late evening hours remain for their own basic and professional education. Without electricity for light no good instruction is possible. Therefore teachers and founders of the training centre „San Marco “looked for a solution, which could at the same time offer to them permanently electric current and also independence from the public power supply. Their search led them to Luxembourg!

There the company SOLARtec s.àr.l. produces and develops Solar Hybrid Power Supply Systems. A team of engineers and experienced technicians coordinates project development, planning and logistics up to the complete installation locally and this world-wide!

 

 

Under the label name IPS® (IndependentPowerSystem) SOLARtec offers his mobile and state of the art concept. With technically absolutely high-quality components, different sizes of the systems are manufactured, in order to realize various solutions for self-sufficient electricity supply in areas without public net.

SOLARtec set with IPS® the benchmark in the discussion led world-wide over self-sufficient energy use, converted the concept consistently and developed it into serial production. The IPS® stores solar energy in battery plants, converts this into alternating current, regulates, steers and distributes it automatically to individual electric circuits. The concept of the IPS® makes it possible that conventional generators contribute only to a maximum of 3 to 7% of the total covering of the annual energy requirement. This saves to a large extend fuel and costs and reduces the CO2-emission.

 

 

The special construction method of the mobile IPS® technique centre guarantees low and continuous interior temperatures and this also during strong sun exposure at extreme locations. Thus the working life of the battery plants of up to 10 years becomes possible. The dust proof and multi-level venting system flows with air-conditioned interior air around the inserted components, whereby optimal operating conditions are reached.

IPS® technical centre is a 10ft and 20ft-DIN container developed and certified by SOLARtec. Transport takes place by sea and overland route to the places of work (CSC-Certificate). The centre contains all necessary state of the art components, as well as a modern energy management (IPS®-Controller), the load dividers (8 lines), inverters, accumulator batteries and the back-up generator. The customer-oriented „plug & play “principle of the IPS® centre makes the immediate employment of the systems possible and this without time and cost-intensive connection work. During bad weather phases the IPS® concept uses a “back-up” system. This can be an existing external Diesel generator or an optionally available internal load generator.

 

 

The entire plant data can be supervised from the distance over a standardised modem (GPRS) and if necessary a service can take place. Substantial characteristic of the IPS® technology is their reliable functioning by the redundant execution of special components and the easy handling. After a short briefing the users of an IPS® solution are able to operate their power supply independently.