2. Outback Power, Hopital de Port a Piment
Firm: Outback Power
Project: Hopital de Port a Piment – Outback Grid/Hybrid Power System
Project Owner: SELF (Solar Electric Light Fund)
SELF recently installed a solar energy system for a hospital in southwestern Haiti. The Hôpital de Port-à-Piment is a small facility providing a wide variety of health care services: surgeries, newborn deliveries, and basic diagnostic lab work, all of which previously relied on expensive diesel fuel generators and an unreliable local electricity grid prone to frequent power outages. Without around-the-clock power, vaccines and medicines could not remain cold, incubators could not stay warm, and surgeries would have to be performed with sub-standard lighting, greatly increasing patient risk.
SELF installed an 11.7kW photovoltaic (PV) array with an OutBack Power 6,000W FLEXpower inverter system to provide the hospital with continuous electricity to better serve the 16,000 Haitians in the region. The new solution is essential for the hospital as it provides significant fuel savings and a reliable source of electricity, as well as an improved patient and worker environment that is free from the diesel fumes and noise produced by a generator. This solution optimizes generator run-time, making the entire system more efficient.
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