Peru Is Giving Free Solar Power To Its 2 Million Poorest Residents

The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program, which Peru initiated on July 8 2013 in order to provide 95% of its people access to electricity by the end of 2016, cost the country $200 million but is successful in supplying free electricity using solar panels to 2 million of its poorest residents.

When the program started two years ago, only 66% of Peru’s 24 million people had access to electricity. “This program is aimed at the poorest people, those who lack access to electric lighting and still use oil lamps, spending their own resources to pay for fuels that harm their health,” Energy and Mining Minister Jorge Merino said.

The first phase installed 1,601 solar panels in the Contumaza province enough to power 126 impoverished communities throughout Cupisnique, San Benito, Chilete, Tantarica, Yonan, San Luis, and Contai. The second phase involved installing 12,500 photovoltaic solar systems enough to supply free power to 500,000 extremely poor households — about 2 million people.

As part of its ambitious pursuit of solar power, Peru has also constructed the largest solar plant in Latin America, which generates electricity for over 67,000 homes, reducing Peruvian emissions of carbon dioxide by 24,000 tons each year. Peru’s average solar radiation levels can reach 5 kWh per m² a day in the Sierra (foothill of The Andes).
 
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