{"id":140499,"date":"2022-01-19T14:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sma-sunny.com\/einsatz-in-uganda-stabile-stromversorgung-fuer-schule-und-krankenhaus\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:50:36","slug":"at-work-in-uganda-stable-power-supply-for-school-and-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/en\/at-work-in-uganda-stable-power-supply-for-school-and-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"At work in Uganda: stable power supply for school and hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Dennis Halpape and Alexander Krug journeyed to East Africa for the first time with Kassel-based association <\/strong>TOGETHER \u2013 Hilfe f\u00fcr Uganda [Aid for Uganda] <\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to install a solar system twelve years ago, there was rarely any light to be found for many kilometers in every direction in the region of Kooki after sunset. Today, when it gets dark, there are significantly more lights on in the houses there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The TOGETHER <\/em>association is among those that have played a part in this. For more than 20 years, association members and aid workers have been implementing infrastructure projects there for purposes such as installing water supplies and building hospitals and schools for children, as well as vocational schools, all with the help of sponsors. They have also installed solar solutions that supply the new buildings with sustainable solar power. Dennis and Alexander have been there and assisted a few times. The latest trip was scheduled for November 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

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\"Berufsschule<\/a>Mission delayed by coronavirus pandemic<\/h2>\n

This trip, however, turned out to be a lot more complicated than on previous occasions. Many months had passed by the time the installation team, comprising Dennis, Alexander and SMA employee Juri Billinger as well as two engineers from electrical company GreenVesting<\/a>, finally boarded the plane for Kampala, Uganda. The culprit was COVID-19 \u2013 the cause of countless delays all over the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, more and more shops and small businesses have emerged thanks to the increasing number of people with access to electricity,\u201d said Dennis, who works as a project manager at SMA\u2019s Energy Systems business unit. \u201cLife no longer shuts down automatically as soon as the sun sets. In remote regions, though, where our projects take place, reliable power supply is still non-existent. Electricity from generators is the norm there. Even when there is a connection to the utility grid, no one knows when electricity will be available and for how long, or when it will be restored after an outage. That is far from ideal, especially for facilities such as schools and hospitals, which rely on a stable supply of electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t