Workshop organized by the UK Research Council’s Energy Programme funded by UKAid and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) held in Kenya from December 11 to 14, 2012
Mauricio Solano, engineer of TTA, was invited by the organizers UK Research Council’s Energy Programme funded by UKaid, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Mauricio participated with the support from the Joint Research Centre-EC, University College London and several African universities; he was selected among hundreds […]
II Congreso Cubano de Ingeniería Eléctrica (II CCIE) en el marco de la XVI Convenciónn Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura (16 CCIA) celebrado del 26 al 30 noviembre 2012 en La Habana
El ingeniero Kenneth Chaves-Ugalde, de la Unidad Regional de TTA en Costa Rica, participó en la sesión técnica de Energía y Medio Ambiente. Su presentación cubrió la experiencia del proyecto de TTA en Cabo Verde: “Energización y modelo de sostenibilidad para una microrred solar”.
ACP-EU Energy Facility Seminar – «The Energy Facility and Sustainable Energy for All » / Launch of the 2012 Call for Proposals, held in Kigali in Rwanda on November 21-22, 2012
Xavier Vallvé, Director of TTA was invited to participate as a speaker in the Session related to Affordability/Willingness to pay and he presented TTA’s experience on “SESAMER– Sustainable energy service for rural isolated villages with renewable energy micro grids in the island of Santo Antão (Cape Verde)”.
1st International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference, an official contribution to the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, held in Accra, Ghana on November 1-2, 2012
Xavier Vallvé, Director of TTA, was invited to be a moderator in the roundtable “Off-grid renewable energy systems: technologies, advantages, challenges and costs”. He also made a presentation on “Design Criteria for Solar PV Rural Micro Grids for Village Electrification”. This Conference was organized jointly by The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), The Alliance for […]
TTA obtains contract from KITE to carry out the Electricity Demand Forecast for rural communities in Ghana, November 2012
The contract consists of providing General Technical Assistance to KITE for the elaboration of the complete Energy Demand Forecast of the seven communities targeted within the pre-assessment for the development of pilot mini-grid electricity generation schemes.
TTA obtuvo la adjudicación del contrato para la «Evaluación Final del Programa de Energías Renovables para Mercados Rurales-PERMER» de Argentina, octubre 2012
El trabajo consiste en realizar la Evaluación Final del PERMER, que lleva 12 años de ejecución, por medio del cual se ha instalado generación eléctrica aislada para beneficiar a casi 30 mil familias en muchas Provincias argentinas. TTA junto con su socio local realiza este proyecto para la Unidad Ejecutora del PERMER de Argentina, financiado […]
Training Course on «Options and best practices for renewable energy technologies for productive uses in the Mediterranean region» in Tunis, Tunisia from October 8 to 12, 2012
Xavier Vallvé, Director of TTA was invited to participate in this event organized by ICS – UNIDO in collaboration with the «Centre International des Technologies de l’Environnement de Tunis (CITET) », the “Agence Nationale pour la Maîtrise de l’Energie (ANME) » and the Mediterranean Renewable Energy Centre (MEDREC) in which he covered two areas – Solar photovoltaic […]
Commissioning and start-up of rural electrification systems in Palestine in September 2012
TTA provided its technical assistance to the EnergyResearchCenter at An-NajahNationalUniversity for the identification and implementation of rural photovoltaic micro grids of 5KWp each for the villages of Amkahel and L-Saeed in Ya’bad-Jenin and 17 individual home micro plants for the villages of Yarza (9) and Ibzeq (8), in Tubas.
Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) Lecture Series featured Xavier Vallé, Director of TTA as Lecturer in its event on October 1, 2012, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The lecture given by X. Vallvé was: “Hybrid Photovoltaic Power Systems and Rural Micro Grids: Lessons Learned and Case Studies in Developing Countries”, and following his presentation he was invited to join a small group of WISE researchers to allow more discussion time regarding solar PV hybrid rural electrification solutions within remote areas of Spain […]
27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy, held in Frankfurt Germany from September 24 to 28, 2012
Xavier Vallvé, Director of TTA was invited as a member of the International Scientific Committee to act as a Topic Organiser of the Conference and Exhibition, in the area of “Off-grid Applications”. As a speaker, in the panel “From Components to Design Options for Off-grids” he made a presentation on the “Implementation of a PV […]
