Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living

It is estimated that at least 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity and three out of five people don’t have access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though Africa is rich in a wide range of energy resources including solar, bio, natural gas, oil, coal and Uranium, the continent is far from energy self-sufficiency. Addressing climate change will require deep and quick reductions in fossil fuel use so that the systems developed around producing, transporting, and consuming energy are decarbonized by the middle of the century. In the ongoing age, sustainable power source has taken another swing to limelight on the planet, particularly in developed and emerging nations, as it assumes a noteworthy part both in economy and the general job of the world. Significantly, Nigeria an oil-rich country, comes as no surprise that almost all of her energy consumption comes from non-renewable energy sources as coal, natural gas and oil, and as such it is highly vulnerable to sh...

Patagonia is a firm unlike any other; its focus is not just about making a profit.  Its founder, Yvon Chouinard has created an outdoor and equipment company that looks to make an impact on how we approach consumption and sustainability.  Chouinard’s leadership has allowed Patagonia to become an iconic brand that stands for living a better life by taking care of the earth and acting as a moral compass that both companies and consumers can follow.  Patagonia, founded in 1972, has utilized its direct-mail catalogs to sell outdoor clothing and equipment, but more importantly to promote the organizations support toward causes like genetically modified food, overfishing, and putting the earth first.  What’s makes Patagonia’s message unique is that it voiced these issues when it was not popular to do so; Chouinard let it be known that the earth cannot survive based on today’s consumption practices and there was and is a need to put the earth first and develop a sustainable business model that recycles and reuses materials. (Casey, 2007).
In terms of product, “Patagonia has scaled the peak of the outdoor apparel and accessories business.  The company designs and markets rugged clothing and accessories to mountain climbers, skiers, surfers, and other extreme sports enthusiasts and environmentalists who are willing to pay for the Patagonia brand and its environmental ethic.  Besides its signature Patagonia line (for outdoor gear and apparel), the company also sells items from sister companies Lotus Designs (paddling gear), Water Girl (women's sportswear), and Great Pacific Iron Works (retails outdoor gear and apparel).  Patagonia, owned by Lost Arrow Corporation, sells these items, as well as luggage, through specialty retailers, a catalog, website, and its own stores” (Hoover’s, 2014).
Patagonia’s uses an environmental differentiation strategy built on a vision of environmental conservation and restoration, and a foundation of values that include quality, integrity, environmentalism, not bound by convention, and Zen philosophy.  Patagonia’s mission statement is “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis” (Patagonia, 2014).
The business model supporting the strategy relies on innovation with its processes, product and services, and business model.  Innovation allows the company to create value through operational excellence, customer intimacy, product leadership, and environmental stewardship.  Customer perceive value from excellent quality and service, and the good feeling that results from doing business with Patagonia.  Patagonia is able to capture value via profits, growth and market share.  Patagonia’s new CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Rose Marcario describes this model as follows: “Patagonia is built on the principle of living an examined life and I think that permeates into the company culture.  Anything we’re doing, any product that we’re building, we examine the supply chain and look at the impacts of that chain on the environment.  We look for ways to innovate so that it has less impact on the environment and that requires a lot of self-reflection.  And, I think, the company culture is really built on that principle and the result of that is a better product that people feel better about buying” (Kasperkevic, 2014). 
Patagonia is launching an organic product line intended to support sustainability within the apparel industry and attract the LOHAS Community consumer; they are the “future of your business and also the future of progressive social, environmental and economic change in this country” (LOHAS, 2014).  This particular product line will focus on two of the identified segments with the LOHAS Community; they represent a $52 billion of the $290 billion LOHAS market: Eco Tourism and Natural Lifestyles.  The campaign is designed to accomplish two high-level goals.  First to grow the organic apparel line within Patagonia’s product and service portfolio, and two, to develop a relationship with the LOHAS Community that can be leveraged to promote sustainability and increase social change philanthropy. 
By 2014, Patagonia’s organic apparel intends to capture $52 million of the LOHAS Community Eco Tourism and Natural Lifestyle consumer spend in 2014 in the US.  Moreover, the Patagonia’s organic apparel will sell $104 million of organic cotton apparel in 2015, $156 in 2016 and $208 in 2017.  The website traffic sources will measure promotional activities to ensure efforts are directed toward websites with the highest response rates.  For instance, we will obtain Patagonia organic cotton apparel and LOHAS Community as a Google level one category hits for 90% of all users that search for designated tags.  Such strategy will ensure Patagonia’s exposure to a large audience base in the US LOHAS Community.  The fourth metric will monitor web traffic by state and the goal will be to obtain a 10% conversion in each state versus total clicks.
Our strategy and tactics include monitoring sales trends and effectiveness of the marketing campaign on a weekly basis.  Furthermore, by incorporating Patagonia organic cotton apparel success stories into online marketing programs, Patagonia will achieve consistent development monthly.  Additionally, Patagonia will work closely with Google to attain advertising space, gain level one category hits for Patagonia organic cotton apparel or LOHAS Community, and offer various types of incentives to attract customers.  And finally, Patagonia will work with Social Media channels by contributing inducements.  Patagonia organic cotton apparel is expected to capture a significant portion of the LOHAS Eco Tourism and Natural Lifestyle market.  Its break-even chart indicates 249,091 units sold would be required to breakeven and the product’s 2014 sales forecast surpasses this with a target of 472,727 providing a profit of $16.6 million.  Patagonia’s ability to significantly improve customer satisfaction by providing organic cotton products that protect and sustain the environment, while enhancing the consumers outdoor lifestyle separates it from everything else currently available in the market!  However, in addition to that, Patagonia’s ability to provide a platform for social philanthropy is really what will blow the competition out of the water!  Depending on its wearer, Patagonia’s organic cotton apparel will enrich eco travel, augment natural lifestyles and enrich the feeling provided by taking concrete steps to sustain the environment, protect the earth, and most importantly facilitate a living a healthier lifestyle.

This study offers an overview of the technologies for hydrogen production especially alkaline water electrolysis using solar energy. Solar Energy and Hydrogen (energy carrier) are possible replacement options for fossil fuel and its associated problems of availability and high prices which are devastating small, developing, oil-importing economies. But a major drawback to the full implementation of solar energy, in particular photovoltaic (PV), is the lowering of conversion efficiency of PV cells due to elevated cell temperatures while in operation. Also, hydrogen as an energy carrier must be produced in gaseous or liquid form before it can be used as fuel; but its‟ present major conversion process produces an abundance of carbon dioxide which is harming the environment through global warming. Alkaline water electrolysis is considered to be a basic technique for hydrogen production. In the present study, the effects of electrolyte concentration, solar insolation and space between the pair of electrodes on the amount of hydrogen produced and consequently on the overall electrolysis efficiency are experimentally investigated. The water electrolysis of potassium hydroxide aqueous solution was conducted under atmospheric pressure using stainless steel 316 as electrodes.The experimental results showed that the performance of alkaline water electrolysis unit is dominated by operational parameters like the electrolyte concentration and the gap between the electrodes. Smaller gaps between the pair of electrodes and was demonstrated to produce higher rates of hydrogen at higher system efficiency. This study shows some attempts to product pure Hydrogen and pure Oxygen as both Hydrogen and Oxygen have there commercial demands.

In this paper, a purposely designed code for the performance analysis of the Water Loop Heat Pump (WLHP) systems is presented. Hourly, daily and seasonal energy system consumptions, operating economic costs and environmental impact assessments are dealt with. For the scope of comparison, the performances of two reference HVAC system are investigated too. For the computation of the building heating and cooling requirements, a suitable dynamic performance simulation model is being developed.
All the relevant algorithms are implemented in MATLAB�. A case study of an office building undergoing simulation in different European climatic areas is being presented. Here, different building thermal features are considered. In order to maximize the system performance an additional optimization procedure to the operating devices temperatures is carried out. Results show that primary energy savings and avoided CO2 emissions of the WLHP system vary in relation to the compared reference systems and can be obtained only in several European weather zones. The feasibility of the WLHP system strongly depends on electricity and natural gas national costs.

The excessive consumption of plastic has a major impact on the environment. Plastic is hard to be degraded (non-biodegradable) as its constituent compounds are not composed of biological compounds. The decomposition process takes 100 to 500 years. As a result, the plastic waste could contaminate the land, the ocean, and even the air as its combustion process emit toxic gases such as dioxins and furans (carcinogenic). In fact, about 80% of the wastes in the oceans come from land with nearly 90% of them are plastics. The plastic waste is not only damaging the land ecosystem but also the marine ecosystem. One of the efforts to utilize plastic wastes is to convert them into biofuel as an alternative fuel in motor vehicle which the engine components are integrated directly with the pyrolysis process, generating a vehicle that can produce fuel by itself. Pyrolysis process is the process of thermal degradation of polymeric materials (cracking) such as plastic or organic material by heating without involving oxygen in it, so that the feeds converted into lighter products with the aid of a catalyst NiO/γ-Al2O3 in a Catalytic Reformer. Plastic wastes are placed in the pyrolysis reactor to be heated until the temperature of 450-500 ° C at the melting point by the heat supplied of the exhaust gas through a connecting pipe to be flowed into the pyrolysis. The gas products of the heating process are condensed by cooling process of the condenser to form the liquid of the alternative fuel which is directly channeled into the fuel tank. This process produces 0.494 liters of fuel per 1 kg of plastic wastes with total expenditure amounting to IDR 1000.00.

Mining communities in Ghana are increasingly dependent on boreholes and wells. This is because surface water in most mining communities in Ghana has become unfit for human consumption due to chemical contamination from gold mining and processing activities. This study was aimed at determining water quality parameters in borehole water in six communities; Nyameso, Bensere, Abompe, Sanso, New Bidiem and Awona all at Obuasi a mining community in Ashanti Region in order to assess the quality of the borehole water. Water samples were collected two times at monthly intervals from October 2012 to December 2012 from the six communities. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Conductivity and pH were measured using the pH meter (EUTECH PCD 650). The heavy metals in the water samples were determined using the Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (Variance 220). Alkalinity was determined using the method of titration. Total and fecal coliforms were enumerated using the membrane filtration method.
Mean conductivity of the borehole water ranged from 6.0867ms/m to 23.7833ms/m; Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) of the borehole water were between 50.0000mg/l and 224.0000mg/l and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) of the boreholes ranged 17.0000mg/l to 3.6667mg/l were all within the WHO limits of 150mg/l, 1000mg/l and 20mg/l respectively. Mean Iron concentration of the borehole water ranged from 0.0063mg/l to 0.1627mg/l; Copper concentration also ranged 0.0027mg/l to 0.0160mg/l; mean concentration of Zinc also ranged 0.0147mg/l to 0.1033mg/l and mean alkalinity was between 19.000mg/l and 77.0000mg/l were within the WHO Limits of 0.3mg/l, 0.05mg/l, 3mg/l and 200mg/l respectively. Mean pH of the borehole at Abompe (6.61 pH units) and Sanso (6.81 pH units) were within the WHO limits whiles that of Nyameso (6.00 pH units), Bensere (5.96 pH units), New Bidiem (6.17 pH units) and Awona (5.67 pH units) were slightly acidic and were below the WHO limits of 6.5-8.5. The mean value of arsenic measured gave elevated results to the WHO standard of 0.01mg/l for drinking water and was ranged from 0.0387mg/l to 0.1363mg/l. The total coliform counts in the borehole waters were higher than the WHO Limit of 0/100ml and the values recorded was between 14.0000/100ml and 167.0000/100ml of sample. Fecal coliform counts range 0.6667/100ml to 79/1000ml of sample and were above the WHO limit of 0/100ml.
The overall results from this study showed that water samples from the boreholes studied were found to be unsafe for drinking due to presence of coliforms in all the community borehole waters. It is therefore recommended that the borehole water from the six communities be subjected to treatment before exposure to public use for drinking.

This study examines how an evolution towards
sustainable ways of urban living can be achieved
through small steps. In this way, a literature
review on the fields of design, sustainability and
alternative ways of living provides a frame for
approaching design for sustainability as well
as an historical overview on alternative social
movements and its motivations. Consequently, a
field research proves Helsinki area as a powerful
agent on practices informing sustainable futures.
This area exhibited strong activities on sustainable
practices such as urban farming, waste reuse, time
banking and many others supported by various
local groups and events. As a consequence, the
local context is depicted by describing the local
practices, groups, events and networks and
its interrelations. However, the small scale of
the local active community proved necessary
the development of means to disseminate the
available practices. In this way, design was used
as a way of activism and facilitation to transform
the information gathered in the research for the
creation of a “guidebook for urban freedom”.
In order to prove the validity of the guidebook,
some of the practices featured in it were subject
of experiments. In this way, experiments were
held in order to analyze the acceptance and
experience of “outsiders” engaging in alternative
practices. For this, people were encouraged to
engage into practices such as “urban farming”
and “reusing discarded food” both alone and
as a group. The conclusion drawn is that people
are eager to engage into alternative practices. In
this way, people tended to achieve better sense
of autonomy and community when engaged in
such practices. Furthermore, through the process,
design proved to be a powerful tool for making
visible and facilitating sustainable futures.

Energy is the prime need for the development of a country and its substantial economic growth. Over all forms of energies, nuclear energy is the most prominent, powerful and challenging energy source. Despite the effectiveness of this energy, its hazardous radiation effects can enormously be dangerous and destructive. Our study mainly focuses on the comparative overviews of nuclear energy aspects of Bangladesh, discussions on radiation effects on environment and living objects health. This paper also suggests some challenges to meet the probable future shortcomings of Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh.

The basic directions of development of alternative energy in Armenia are shown. The general characteristic of solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy of Republic are presented. The need for diversification of the energy system of Armenia is identified. The importance of investment in alternative energy of  Republic is substantiated. The importance of the formation of public-private partnership for the development of the industry is presented. Alternative energy is considered as a part of the energy security of  the Republic of Armenia.
Keywords: alternative energy, energy security, diversification, investments, solar energy, wind energy, bioenergy, geothermal energy.

Рассматриваются основные направления развития альтернативной энергетики Армении. Дана общая характеристика солнечной, ветровой, био- и геотермальной энергетики республики. Показана необходимость диверсификации энергосистемы РА. Обоснована важность осуществления инвестиций в сферу альтернативной энергетики республики, а также формирования государственно-частного партнерства для становления отрасли. Обоснована необходимость рассмотрения альтернативной энергетики как части системы энергетической безопасности Республики Армения.
Ключевые слова: альтернативная энергетика, энергетическая безопасность, диверсификация, инвестиции, солнечная энергетика, ветровая энергетика, биоэнергетика, геотермальная энергетика.

Although there is an increasing recognition of the impacts of climate change on communities, residents often resist changing their lifestyle to reduce the effects of the problem. By using a landscape architectural design medium, this paper argues that public space, when designed as an ecological system, has the capacity to create social and environmental change and to increase the quality of the human environment. At the same time, this ecological system can engage residents, enrich the local economy, and increase the social network.
Through methods of design, research and case study analysis, an alternative master plan is proposed for a sustainable tourism development in Alacati, Turkey. Our master plan uses local geographical, economic and social information within a sustainable landscape architectural design scheme that addresses the key issues of ecology, employment, public space and community cohesion. A preliminary community empowerment model (CEM) is proposed to manage the designs. The designs address: the coexistence of local agricultural and sustainable energy generation; state of the art water management; and the functional and sustainable social and economic interrelationship of inhabitants, NGOs, and local government.

The article analyses schemes suitable for supporting the integration of renewable energy (RE) into power sectors within jurisdictions. Its thesis is that stable and predictable regulatory frameworks that enhance RE are prerequisite for successfully integrating RE into energy streams in the power sector. It employs qualitative methods, and relies on primary and secondary sources. It contributes to the literature by building on existing classifications of RE support systems, revealing clues for choosing mechanisms that offer the best potential for successfully integrating RE into countries' energy streams. It reveals that production-based support mechanisms are better for supporting RE projects than investment-based support systems, and identifies the fixed and premium feed-in tariff models as tested reliable support mechanisms. It recommends that jurisdictions should adjust these models alongside energy efficiency to suit their peculiarities, and government interference with RE policy should be moderate, mainly focusing on setting predictable legal and investment conditions and providing incentives. It concludes that jurisdictions should give closer attention to the design of processes underpinning support mechanisms, rather than the choice of support mechanisms they eventually employ.

It is estimated that at least 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity and three out of five people don’t have access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though Africa is rich in a wide range of energy resources including solar, bio, natural gas, oil, coal and Uranium, the continent is far from energy self-sufficiency. Addressing climate change will require deep and quick reductions in fossil fuel use so that the systems developed around producing, transporting, and consuming energy are decarbonized by the middle of the century. In the ongoing age, sustainable power source has taken another swing to limelight on the planet, particularly in developed and emerging nations, as it assumes a noteworthy part both in economy and the general job of the world. Significantly, Nigeria an oil-rich country, comes as no surprise that almost all of her energy consumption comes from non-renewable energy sources as coal, natural gas and oil, and as such it is highly vulnerable to sh...

In the chemicals world of synthesis gas production, CO+H2 can be viewed as a form of "carbon harvesting" or "carbon management" as a means to a hydrocarbon end. The processes are always associated with high CO2-yields (water-gas shift) which lead to poor process efficiencies and unwanted GHG emissions during production. This presentation looks at turning the concept around through alternative energy sources such as waste heat, solar, wind and nuclear energy to essentially propose the "green synthesis gas": CO2+H2.  A first scenario looks at converting high temperature flue gas to a fuel gas, useful for downstream processing in the iron & steel industry, for example.  A second scenario ultimately looks at "hydrogen management" and the "hydrogen economy" through atmospheric "carbon harvesting" or "industrial-type photoysnthesis emulation" (IPE). Methanol (medium-high density liquid) and methane could essentially become "batteries" of stored energy or building blocks for further chemical conversion by circulating carbon from the atmosphere.

30 páginas de fotografias que dan cuenta  de avances 2013-2016 en desarrollo tecnológico, con recursos propios, aplicado a la  construcción de la sede de la empresa, en fase comercial o de incubación Deportes y Turismo del Manatí.  La sede operará en el poblado Raudales, Ejido Ursulo Galván, Municipio de Othón P. Blanco, estado de Quintana Roo, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.  Se ubica en el corazón de la reserva de protección natural "Santuario del Manatí Bahía de Chetumal".

Clean Energy Environment is vital for health, wealth, industrial output and economic growth. This paper x-rays possibilities of leveraging on energy mix to transit from current state to Clean Energy Environment in Nigeria. Current energy situation were carefully checked and mitigation strategies identified. Findings revealed that there are a lot of pollution of our environment due to energy deficit, inadequate utilization of renewable energy, lack of strategic management skills, decadence in energy sector and lack of adequate attention to energy mix. It was concluded that there is dire need to leverage on energy mix for cleaner environment, better productivity and sustainable energy system in Nigeria. The rising cost of electricity has motivated the search for energy mix and this has placed a demand on the realization of cleaner environment. Global interest in climate change and demand for efficient energy has necessitated reduction in environmental pollution and increase in renewable energy. Investment in clean will create employment and enhanced opportunities for engineers. Mitigation strategies include implementation of energy efficiency programme, adoption of low emission technologies, periodic energy audit and capacity building in energy sector. Policy and management strategies that can increase energy mix improvement require adequate attention by government and other regulatory bodies in energy sector. It is recommended that government, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Council for the regulation of engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and all stakeholders should give adequate priority and attention to energy mix for clean energy environment, sustainable industrial growth and economic growth in Nigeria.

1991-ci ildə dövlət müstəqilliyini bərpa etdikdən sonra bir çox sahələrdə olduğu kimi iqtisadi sahədə də öz suveren hüquqlarını gerçəkləşdirməyə və müstəqil siyasət yürütməyə başlamışdır. Bu siyasətin başlıca istiqamətlərini müxtəlif mülkiyyət formalarına əsaslanan bazar iqtisadiyyatına keçid və dünya iqtisadiyyatına inteqrasiya təşkil etmişdir. Müstəqillik əldə olunduğu ilk vaxtlarda əvvəllər İttifaq daxilində həyata keçirilən iqtisadi siyasətin ləğvi, Ermənistan silahlı qüvvələrinin Azərbaycana hərbi təcavüzü, ictimai-siyasi sabitliyin pozulması nəticəsində 90-cı illərin əvvəllərindən etibarən iqtisadiyyatın əksər sahələrində istehsalın tənəzzülü başlamış və bu prosses getdikcə dərinləşərək xroniki səciyyə almışdır.

In this paper operation data were collected to   evaluate petrol (PMS) fuel when used as primary source of energy to generate electricity. The analysis highlight cost effectiveness and power quality of this means of generating electricity. For the exercise, a 2 KVA electric power generator was loaded from 800W to 1200W at 100W increment and one hour duration respectively for each load. The Data collected during generator operation include the load current, supplied voltage, power frequency, power factor and power consumed at five minutes interval for each load value. The generated Data were analyzed using mathematical and graphical approach to determine the generated power quality and unit cost of generation. The results, compared with the grid, show that the grid is far more economical and have better power quality.

The women-energy nexus involves the challenge of engendering energy and the challenge of empowering women through energy. The first challenge arises from the gender disaggregation of energy consumption patterns. A quantitative account of the share of women in these patterns is presented through a description of the rural energy consumption pattern of the village of Pura in South India. The results indicate that women work more hours than men. Women also perform the back-breaking tasks and are displaced by agricultural mechanisation. The energy output-input imbalance is aggravated by the fact that, in developing countries, women traditionally eat last and least in a family-women therefore take in less food energy than men. The gender distribution of labour results in negative health impacts. The scarcity of energy services in rural areas has serious social and gender impacts. Tackling them requires energy interventions to improve the quality of life for women. Examples of such energy interventions are the community biogas plant at the village of Pura and the multipurpose platforms of the Mali project. Since technological opportunities exist for such energy interventions, attention is turned to the second challenge of empowering women through energy entrepreneurship. This requires a change of mind-set on the part of energy planners and activists-they must promote the notion of women as managers and entrepreneurs, and not just beneficiaries, of improved energy services. The idea is to push the following sequence: women as deprived in energy consumption patterns → women as beneficiaries of energy interventions → women as managers of enterprises → women as energy entrepreneurs. This is nothing short of a paradigm shift-but once achieved and implemented, the results will speak for themselves. Such an approach will engender energy by converting it into a force for improving the quality of life as well as enhancing productive capacities-a virtuous circle of energy for women and women for energy.

In this paper operation data were collected to   evaluate petrol (PMS) fuel when used as primary source of energy to generate electricity. The analysis highlight cost effectiveness and power quality of this means of generating electricity. For the exercise, a 2 KVA electric power generator was loaded from 800W to 1200W at 100W increment and one hour duration respectively for each load. The Data collected during generator operation include the load current, supplied voltage, power frequency, power factor and power consumed at five minutes interval for each load value. The generated Data were analyzed using mathematical and graphical approach to determine the generated power quality and unit cost of generation. The results, compared with the grid, show that the grid is far more economical and have better power quality.

In this paper operation data were collected to evaluate petrol (PMS) fuel when used as primary source of energy to generate electricity. The analysis highlight cost effectiveness and power quality of this means of generating electricity. For the exercise, a 2 KVA electric power generator was loaded from 800W to 1200W at 100W increment and one-hour duration respectively for each load. The Data collected during generator operation include the load current, supplied voltage, power frequency, power factor and power consumed at five minutes' interval for each load value. The generated Data were analyzed using mathematical and graphical approach to determine the generated power quality and unit cost of generation. The results, compared with the grid, show that the grid is far more economical and have better power quality.

A substantial amount of energy is spent in the manufacturing processes and transportation of various building materials. Conservation of energy becomes very important in the context of limiting greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere. Selection of materials and technologies, in building construction, should not only satisfy the felt needs of the users and the development needs of the society but also minimize the adverse impact on the environment. This paper documents, on a comparative basis, the savings in embodied energy of walling and roofing systems using hollow clay blocks. It analyses and highlights the savings in the embodied energy in relation to conventional walling and roofing in residential designs, in the Indian urban context. Case studies of 20 projects which were designed and executed by the first author from 1989 to 2006 have been examined. This research was done at the RV College of Architecture, Bengaluru, between 2008 and 2014, when both the authors were serving the institution.

En Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche y Yucatán, así como en las Republicas centroamericanas, existe una enorme demanda insatisfecha de desarrollos tecnológico-energéticos a nivel familiar, comunitario, unidad productiva, y municipal.  Industria, comercio, turismo, agricultura, pesca y ganadería, comparten una auténtica “hambre” de energía adecuada, oportuna, confiable y a precios accesibles. Sin embargo, en toda esta basta región, no existe una sola empresa que se dedique, precisamente, al mantenimiento, basado en desarrollos tecnológicos “a la medida”, de sistemas de energía a menudo ya instalados pero operando deficientemente. Contribuir a la superación de este déficit, es el cometido del presente proyecto.  La propuesta persigue conformar la base tecnológica necesaria para el diseño y desarrollo de tecnologías de equipos, procesos y productos para la generación, transmisión y aplicación de energía proveniente de fuentes convencionales y alternas en Mesoamérica.