Suchergebnisse

El acceso a la electricidad sigue siendo un desafío para una gran parte de la población de Honduras. En un país con una población rural fuertemente diseminada en pequeñas comunidades, la naturaleza montañosa de la Cordillera Centroamericana se traduce en limitaciones para extender el sistema eléctrico. Desde 2003, la Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA) combate estas dificultades instalando sistemas hidráulicos en pequeñas comunidades rurales. Sin embargo, la limitación provoca un amplio margen de mejora de estos sistemas rudimentarios. Este trabajo presenta una estrategia de mejora y optimización matemática de la metodología tradicional de diseño, permitiendo aprovechar al máximo los recursos naturales de estas comunidades. La nueva metodología se ha aplicado con éxito en una comunidad piloto. Las ventajas de esta metodología han sido tales que ha sido implementada por los técnicos de FHIA para ser replicada en las intervenciones sucesivas.

Universal access to energy constitutes one of the biggest challenges that humanity has to face in the coming years. Modern societies are strongly dependent on electricity, which is required to run factories, processing plants, transport systems and health services, among many others. It plays such an important role in fulfilling the basic human needs that it has become a clear indicator of economic and social well-being. Although access to energy has kept increasing during the last decades, along with world population and industrialization, the highly unequal distribution in the patterns of energy use around the world are worrisome. Nowadays, more than one billion people still lacks access to electricity. These people are especially located in rural areas of developing countries and rely on traditional fuels or wood for the main household needs. This not only relegate living conditions at the low subsistence level, but also constitutes a big barrier to their social and economic development. In this context, social and political pressure to electrify deprived areas in developing countries has increased, growing consensus among international development partners. Several initiatives, such as the United Nation (UN) Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), have established the route and the objectives to target the universalization of energy access.