Green Scene is spearheading a project to provide solar power to ensure the reliability of a south-eastern Ethiopian airport’s communications system.
The 9kW solar energy project — to be completed and unveiled early this international New Year — is Green Scene’s latest step in bringing reliable and affordable energy to communities and facilities across Ethiopia. The system will provide vital power to the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority’s broadcast station, which handles all-important communications with international and domestic flights flying across the region.
Currently, the regional airport is connected to the national grid, with the back-up of a diesel-powered generator. The Civil Aviation Authority wanted a reliable, affordable, clean alternative to providing the power that is essential to the operation of the broadcast station. Green Scene was the natural choice meet the authority’s exacting requirements and deliver this for them by February 2020.
Currently, six in ten people in Ethiopia are not connected to the national electricity grid. Thankfully, in the Ethiopian sun, the power is there. Green Scene is working to tap into it, in order to power homes, businesses, vital community facilities, and water pumps for farms and people, and in this way to empower all Ethiopians to unleash their energies.
The 9kW solar energy project in south-eastern Ethiopia offers power on a scale that would also provide reliable energy to hospitals and other vital community facilities.
Green Scene is also considering proposals to support the Government of Ethiopia’s plan to deliver community mini-grids of 30kW+ across the country — seen as essential to bringing power — and crucially communications and information — to everybody, wherever they live.
