REACH

Renewable Energy Development in Small Towns and Rural Areas in Afghanistan (under cluster TA 3874-AFG: Capacity Building for Reconstruction and Development Component 1C).

Purpose

Scope

Status

• For completion on 31 December 2006.

Outputs

• Prepared a Social Mobilization manual in English and Dari that will be made available countrywide to organizations engaged in community renewable energy electrification.
• Installed wind-monitoring units at Panjsher (Ahmed Shah Massoud's mausoleum), Bamiyan and Kabul. Developed plans to install 9 other units in other parts of the country. The data will be used to prepare a wind regime resource map for Afghanistan and size appropriate wind turbines for electricity generation.
• Initiated reforestation of the Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul. The hill will be reforested using a combination of drip irrigation technology, solar powered water pumps and a solar/wind hybrid system.
• Installed three solar powered ozone generated water treatment systems with cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health, in clinics located in Kabul to provide potable water including refrigerate vaccines. Solar energy is used to disinfect the water using ozone gas.
• Completed engineering design of installing 2 solar hot water systems to provide 4000 liters of hot water to an orphanage in Kabul.
• Inaugurated the first solar photovoltaic electricity generated building in Afghanistan.
• Revised the electrical energy policy of Ministry of Water and Power to support wide dissemination of renewable energy in the country.
• Developed plans to install 15 units of solar powered pumps for small-scale irrigation and water supply for remote locations.
• Installed a hybrid system of a wind turbine and solar photovoltaic at a high visibility site in Panjsher valley.
• Prepared a social mobilization manual related to renewable energy.