Course Number: CME 3010
Course Title: Solar Power for Africa
Instructor: Dr. Gregory Beaucage
Department: Energy and Materials Engineering
Credits: 3
Class Time: 9:30 am to 10:35 am Tuesday and
Thursday
Room: Zimmer 302
(Video Class Room)
Evaluations: F
2011
GROUPS FOR PROJECT
(XLS file)
LINK
TO LIST FOR CLASS (Please fill this out as soon as possible)
DESCRIPTION
OF NGO WHITE PAPER
Slides for Class: Slides 1 (2Mb),
Slides 2 (5Mb),
Slides 3 (PV Britton
1 Mb), Slides 4
(Energy Härting),
Slides
5 (Mehta), Mehta web pages (Kiva.org, Prosper.com), T-Shirt
Travels
Prof.
Schadrack Nsengiyumba (Rhodes University), Evariste
Minanai (Kigali Institute of Education)
Emmanuel
Jonah (UCT, Nigeria)
Prof. Goro
Girma Gonfa (Haramaya, Ethiopia)
Kiravu 3
slides intro, Talk: Prof.
Cheddi Kiravu U. Botswana , Policy
lessons for the advancement and diffusion of renewable energy
around the world
Dr.
Mussie Alemseghed Eritrea/Ethiopia/Organic Photovoltaics
NGO Slides
Alden
Hathaway (Solar Light for Africa)
Village
Life Outreach Project
NanoPower
For Africa (NPA)
Link to
supplementary material (add an l to the end of link so it
ends .html)
VIDEOS of CLASS: 9/27/11,
9/29/11,
10/4/11,
10/6/11,
10/11/11,
10/13/11,
10/18/11,
10/20/11,
10/25/11,
10/27/11,
11/1/11,
11/3/11,
11/8/11,
11/10/11,
11/15/11,
11/17/11,
11/22/11,
11/29/11, 12/1/11
UC
Catalog of this class
Find
the African Country Game
Solar
Powered Internet School Article ,Article on Cost of
Solar,
Ethiopia
Trip: Site
Pictures, Site
Description,
Learning Objectives:
Solar Power for Africa
will introduce students from a broad range of backgrounds to
the potential of photovoltaics in Africa for developing clean
energy sources to replace fossil fuel systems; the course will
discuss tine energy infrastructure in Africa in the context of
development; students will learn about the Millennium
Development Goals of the United Nations and how this can
impact Southern and East Africa; simple technologies for
photovoltaics that are applicable to indigenous manufacture
and use in sub-Saharan Africa will be considered mostly from a
broad technical perspective; students will be exposed to how
the culture and politics of Africa need to be considered in
implementation of technological development on a local level;
students will learn of the intricate web of stake holders in
the sub-Saharan Africa region and specifically how these stake
holders can work together using photovoltaics towards
development goals; the implication and use and meaning of
micro-finance in the spread of new technology in Africa will
be discussed; students will learn specific case studies of the
application of photovoltaics in various underdeveloped regions
particularly focusing on success stories; Students will learn
of some of the various NGO's involved in bringing
photovoltaics to Africa and particularly how these
organizations have grown and how they function in Africa;
finally the students will discuss a particular effort at the
University of Cincinnati involving a USAID program to develop
higher education in Africa.
Students will develop a group design proposal taking advantage
of the backgrounds and interests of team members that will
present a simple photovoltaic based problem that can be
addressed through a new NGO. Students will propose a
location, technology and finance scheme as a white paper that
could be sent to an organization such as USAID or other
private organizations for funding. The students will
present their proposals as a group at the end of the
quarter.
The course will be taught with a web/video link to three
African Universities: University of Cape Town (South
Africa), Haramaya University (Ethiopia), and Kigali Institute
of Education (Rwanda), University of Botswana (Botswana) and
the Rhodes University (South Africa). Interaction
between Cincinnati and African students will be
encouraged. The group design projects will involve
members from African and US universities who will interact
using Skype video conferencing.
Pedagogy: The
course will be presented as a seminar series of 40 to 50 minute
presentations followed by a discussion of the presentation. Each
presentation will have an associated assignment meant to
reinforce the subject. Reading materials associated with
the presentations will be made available. Students will be
assessed by their participation in the discussion or, at
their
discretion , by presenting written
comments on the presentation each week (1 to 5 pages).
A design project/proposal will be required from small groups of students (3 to 5) seeking to develop a viable photovoltaic system that involves some component of local production and indigenous entrepreneurship. The project will propose a technology, location, micro-finance model and possible funding sources. The design proposal will be presented at the end of the quarter to the class.
An optional trip during December break to Ethiopia is planned to install a PV system in a clinic near Haramaya University. The trip will be coordinated with Colleagues at Haramaya. This experience will serve as a capstone for what was learned in the quarter. (Cost for this optional trip is about $3,500 and will include a trip to historic Ethiopian sites.) University Honors students must participate in the course and the travel component in order to count this as an honors experience. These students should also submit a proposal for a global honors experience which includes a budget, in order to apply for an honors grant to offset costs. Fund raising for SLA by the class may also offset some of the cost for the trip.
Syllabus: (Some of the links below can only
be opened from the University of Cincinnati Computer Network)
Week Topic
1 Energy in the Third World and Off Grid Power
Practical Action’s “three A’s” of
Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate technology
Electric
Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid, David A.
McDonald (2009)
Energy
Access in Africa Challenges.pdf
Energy
and
the Millennium Development Goals
Eight
UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Energy
Access
for
the
Poor
in
East
Africa
Solar
Resource Map, Africa
Solar Map
The Boy Who
Harnessed the Wind, W. Kamkwamba and B. Mealer (2009)
Video of SPA classes associated with this section: Missing first day, 9/27/11
Inga Video
Steps
Centre
Technology and Innovation for Development: Appropriate
Technologies; Business
Model Laos Solar Lighting
2
Photovoltaic Devices and Technology
Introduction
to Renewable Energy On Line Course from
solarenergytraining.org
Electricity
from Sunlight: An Introduction to Photovoltaics
Highly
Efficient Low Cost Photovoltaics
Nanotechnology
for
Photovoltaics
http://www.solarelectricityhandbook.com/
Applied
Photovoltaics
Video of SPA classes associated with this
section: 9/29/11,
3
Raj Mehta
Social Entrepreneurship and Microfinance
ppt,
pdf, Kiva.org,
Prosper.com
Video of
SPA classes associated with this section: 10/11/11
4
Southern and East African Culture and Politics
Historical
Memory in Africa
Essays from the New Encyclopedia of Africa
Africa
and the Americas
BBC
The Story of Africa
The Africa Map
Project
5
The role of stakeholders in photovoltaic development:
Governments, NGOs, USAID, World Bank, private sector and
educational institutions (Slides 3)
USAID in
Africa,
Rwanda Solar Power
Silences
in NGO discourse: The role and future of NGOs in Africa.
Issa. G. Shivji (2007)
NGO's Africa and the Global Order.
Robert Pinkney (2009)
Snakes in
Paradise: NGOs and the Aid Industry in Africa. Hans
Holmen (2009)
Understanding
Land Investment in Africa, Oakland Instutitute
Tajudeen
Abdul-Raheem and the role of NGOs (web page)
Pros
& Cons of NGOs in Africa (Africa News)
BBC
Comments on NGOs in Africa
NGOs in Kenya
Human
Rights NGO's in Africa
NGOs
emphasize the negative
How
to Start a Small NGO
NGOs
and Katrina (Rand Corp)
International
NGOs and Katrina
Wiki
on international aid for Katrina
6
Community Engagement through Micro-finance and the
Entrepreneurial Approach
Making
Finance work for Africa
A
Venture in Africa: Challenges of African Business
Barefoot
Power
Sungevity
as a model?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/link-tvs-viewchange-innovation_n_1384992.html
Micro-finance in Rural Communities in
Southern Africa. Human Sciences Research Council (2002)
The Fortune at the Bottom
of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits. C. K.
Prahalad (2010).
7 Case Study for Government Sponsored Photovoltaics in the Third World: Cuba
The Power of
Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Faith Morgan,
Eugene Murphy, Megan Quinn (2009 Video).
8
Case Studies for NGO Sponsored Photovoltaics in the Third
World: Solar Electric Light Fund & Solar Light
for Africa
Alden Hathaway: Literature from Solar Light
for Africa, http://www.solarlightforafrica.org/Solar_Light_for_Africa_Home.html
Solar Electric Light Fund: www.self.org
Sun Power Foundation: http://www.sunpower.org/,
http://www.solarenergyfoundation.com/sefpurpose.htm
Practical Action Foundation: http://practicalaction.org/
Solar-Aid: http://www.solar-aid.org/
Solar Energy for Africa: http://www.solarenergyforafrica.com/
Solafrica.ch: http://solafrica.ch/
Rural Energy Foundation: http://www.ruralenergy.nl/
Ashden Awards: http://www.ashdenawards.org/
SunPower Afrique: http://www.sunpowerafrique.org/
Energy for Opportunity: http://www.energyforopportunity.org/
Lighting
Africa
(Phaesun Asmara plc)
Bright
Lights Small Villages (article)
Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures
Around the World. Neville Williams (2005)
NYTimes
Bringing
Solar
Power
to
Africa's
Poor
9/23/09; NYTimes
12/25/10
ABC
story
on
Solar
Power
in
Africa
6/10
CNN
story 8/23/10
Independent
1/30/09
Time
May 2010
9
Case Studies for Photovoltaic Production in the Third
World: India, Indonesia, Uganda, others cases.
Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the
World. Neville Williams (2005)
Solar Energy for
Africa, LTD (Uganda)
10 Higher Education and Photovoltaics in sub-Saharan Africa
Congressional Hearing on HED (2008)
NanoPower
Africa (2010), ppt
Human
Development Report
10 Presentation of Design Proposals
