Mini-Grid Design Manual
The manual has been prepared to encourage, and support the design of improved village electrification schemes, anticipating its usefulness for rural development agencies, as well as for national, and provincial energy companies, and authorities. Th...
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| Format: | ESMAP Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/717491/mini-grid-design-manual http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20310 |
| Summary: | The manual has been prepared to
encourage, and support the design of improved village
electrification schemes, anticipating its usefulness for
rural development agencies, as well as for national, and
provincial energy companies, and authorities. Theoretical
and field experiences describe power mini-grid - i.e., low
voltage network within a village, supplied at a single point
by a diesel genset, or micro-hydropower plant. The manual
focuses on the design of the system to distribute the power
generated to consumers, and, designs covered in this manual
range from low-cost designs to serve basic lighting needs,
to more conventional designs that may become interconnected
to the grid within the near future. Discussions on
mini-grids do not involve the use of medium voltage (MV),
however, it should be recognized that it may occasionally be
necessary to use MV to reduce overall costs. The manual
includes several examples of mini-grids, to illustrate the
context in which such projects have been implemented, with
additional detailed case studies. It also contains
qualitative descriptions of the issues to be addressed in
planning for mini-grids, and a range of design options for
the various components of mini-grids, how these are sized,
and incorporated into a mini-grid. |
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