Tech Talk: Ending Energy Poverty through Off-Grid Solar Power

Title: Ending Energy Poverty through Off-Grid Solar Power Over 600 million people lack access to the electricity grid. This form of energy poverty disproportionately afflicts those living in developing countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. Closer to home, tens of thousands of households, mostly on tribal lands are without grid electricity. Achieving universal electrification through grid extension is optimistically decades away, and in many rural areas may never occur. This talk describes approaches to providing off-grid electricity solutions in the form of renewable energy-powered minigrids, microgrids, energy kiosks, and solar home systems. Dr. Louie will draw upon his experiences in Zambia and the Navajo Nation to explain the technology, development approaches, barriers and opportunities for rural electrification. [] Speaker(s): , Henry Louie Room: Room 101, 915 N Broadway, Everett, Washington, United States, 98201, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/471719