Midterm Sustainability Of Remote Areas

Sustainability of remote areas EIT – Energy challenge for sustainable future
Group 5

About
 Our project is about providing electricity and other basic needs to remote area of our chose and make that area sustainable.
 We are choosing an area that is in worst position and needs help but also has a potential to produce needed energy from renewable sources.

We choose Democratic Republic of
Congo (DR Congo)

Because…
 Their share of population without electricity is > 75%.
 Talking numbers that is about 60 millions of people.
 They have a lot of potential resources that are not used (Huge hydro-power potential, a lot of sunny days, geothermal energy, biofuels production).
 A country is rich in remote areas that are not connected to main power grid and forced to produce energy by themselves or stay in the medieval era.

We are researching
 Potential renewable energy sources to exploit.
 Possibility to make efficient power distribution grid.
 Electrification of remote areas that are far away from main grid.
 Water and basic food supply for remote areas.
 Efficient transport that uses renewable fuels
 Political factors that affects the country in this moment
 Implementation costs

In order to…
 Produce enough electricity for whole country and satisfy needs for energy.
 Replace non-renewable power sources with renewable ones.  Make it possible for people to have access to most needed supplies like drinkable water and food.
 Provide the country with more energy that can be sold to other countries to improve the economical condition. We have found
 That DR Congo has plenty of unused hydro-power and that by building only one huge dam they should be able to supply half of Africa with electricity.
 They also have plenty of sunny days during the year and solar power can be used to generate electricity in remote areas away from rivers and main power grid.
 That South Africa is willing to invest in DR Congo power plants so they could buy electricity