This home page presents several pages dealing with renewable energy technologies and rural electrification. Let me know to whom this information is of interest and what other types of information along these lines would be useful. Note that this home page was prepared using the free CompuServe Home Page Wizard software which has very limited options (as is obvious from the layouts in the following pages).

An interesting example of a regionally manufactured technology for generating hydroelectricity for individual homes in remote parts of the country.

While solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is widely heralded as the solution to meeting the needs for basic electrification in developing countries, obstacles standing in the way of implementing sustainable systems should not be overlooked.

An international NGO in Nepal used the occasion of the construction of a 5 MW hydropower plant south of Pokhara to experiment with new designs for reducing the cost of, and thereby increasing accessiblity to, electricity for subsistence villages.