Ecoswell proposes to take advantage of the year-round solar radiation of the region to implement a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) and Solar Panel system at the Medical Center of Talara. After successfully installing a similar system in the Lobitos Health Center, the EcoSwell team aims to replicate it in other medical centers and have a large-scale impact on the local healthcare system.
Vaccines provide a future for communities, the country and globally. Frequent blackouts, severe weather events and an unreliable energy grid have caused vaccines to be lost on several occasions, straining resources and putting the region at risk. This issue adds up to the country's already poor health system. Peru has the highest Covid death rate as a proportion of population in the world according to the EEAS (2021).
Talara receives high levels of solar radiation year-round. This project consists of the implementation of a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) and Solar Panel system that will provide the Medical Post with over 72 hours of backup energy storage to mitigate the impact of most energy cuts. Besides the technical side, this project gives a great importance to building a trust relationship and guiding the local community towards sustainability on a long term basis.
The efforts of installing UPS and Solar Panel Systems will contribute to making Talara a key vaccination center in the region. In the long run, this will contribute to the improvement of the healthcare system and increase the vaccination rate in Talara and neighboring districts. Additionally, The solar panels reduce the center's consumption of regular electricity by around 40%.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
