Enerpoint for Africa

• Project: Installation of a photovoltaic plant.
• Associations: Association “Friends of Angal”

The hospital’s water supply is currently, though not without complications, provided  by two  fifty and seventy metre deep wells, in which there are 2 piston pumps: one electrical and one mechanical. Unfortunately, an earthquake in Autumn 2004 caused serious water shortages, resulting in the mechanical pump breaking down without a hope of repairing it.
This is precisely where Enerpoint stepped in, designing a replacement plant of photovoltaic solar panels and, above all, sending the materials necessary to build it.  

Now the operation has been completed, here are the results! 

At Angal hospital the water pump (http://www.amicidiangal.org) is now working, powered by renewable energy so that water can be pumped efficiently and ecologically.

• on days when there is practically no sun they pump approximately 3,000 l/d  (3,000 litres a day)
• on moderately sunny days they pump between  5,000 and 8,000 l/d
• on fine sunny days they pump between 12,000 and 14,000 l/d (as calculated)
• on days with constant and exceptionally bright sunshine they have pumped up to 18,000 l/d

This leads to:

• considerable savings
• a stop to the consumption of non renewable energy materials
• elimination of pollution caused by hydrocarbon combustion.

Even though our contributions only help with a tiny part of the problems that afflict this country we continue optimistically to work with the organisation “Friends of  Angal”. 

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