Solar power for communes

6 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Land / Multilateral development assistance / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Solar power / Water resources
Asian Development Bank (ADB) / National Committee for Subnational Democratic Development Secretariat / Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project / Tonle Sap river / TSSD

The offices of commune officials along the Tonle Sap basin will soon be solar-powered as part of a poverty-reduction project backed by the Asian Development Bank. Some 123 off-the-grid commune council offices in Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham provinces will be fitted with solar panels to power computers and support the online flow of information to Cambodia’s rural areas, according to Chanthou Hem, senior project officer at the ADB. … The solar installation forms part of the $51.1 million TSSD, which aims to improve conditions for 630,000 households along the Tonle Sap by 2020 through improved farming techniques and better quality seeds. …

 Daniel de Carteret
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