Projek Mikro Hidro Komuniti

video Pendek pembinaan mikro hidro di Kg. Inakaak Daerah Pensiangan Sabah

Micro Hydro Project Video

A short Video done by our Intern from Green Empowerment. just to give some background on the whole micro hydro initiative that we started over 10 years ago

Renewable Energy on the TOP of Borneo

My latest Renewable Energy Project

Harnessing nature's energy at the World Herritage Site

Recently (12-17th September 2011) we installed microsolar solar water heater at Pendant hut, Labanrata Mt. Kinabalu for Mountain Torq Sdn. Bhd. the operator of the world's highest Via Feratta. Highest effciency solar water heater in the world for the highest via ferrata in the world... how about that! .. double world class

During the installation the weather is VERY cold 8-9 deg cel (for someone coming from the tropics) but still the Microsolar can heat water up to 55 deg cel. its steaming hot in this altitude (3,300 m Asl)

Apart from installing 2 units of high efficent evacuated tube Microsolar solar water heater, we also installed 800watt peak of Solar PV to provide electricity for essential loads at Pendant Hut. Solar PV will be combined with small Pico Hydro system as a Solar-Hydro Hybrid in later Phase.

This is the Solar Hydro Main controll panel designed and build by me. The KWh meter will track how much RE power have contributed to the operations of Pendant Hut.

This time rain was very heavy.. swelling up all the usually unseen rivers up in the mountain. in this condition its not safe to install the hydro turbine. too bad we have to KIV the installation of the Pico Hydro system.. anyway a good opportunity to get back up Mt Kinabalu.

The Pico Hydro trubine and its components on "shelf" till the next phase.. when weather is better. once the Solar Hydro Hybrid is commisioned.. pendant Hut will be Autonomous from the ever failing SESB utility Grid at Lanbanrata. Labanrata experiance 4-5 Grid blackouts a day!

More to come.. stay tuned

UMS Solar Wind Hybrid Demo Unit

Base for stay cabled monopole for wind Turbine

Installing Monopole

Installing turbine Blades

Installing solar panels. Dr Jedol from School of Scince and Technology also helping

The completed Demo unit at UMS SST.. Group of students, Lecturers and volunteers posing for the occasion. Estimated Cost RM10,000. Turbine and panels donated by ERA WIRA Sdn. Bhd

Power To The People

Power to rural folks via micro-hydro system

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=%2F2011%2F8%2F8%2Flifefocus%2F8833053&sec=lifefocus

By ALLAN KOAY
star2@thestar.com.my

A micro-hydro system that is environment-friendly and requires the participation of the villagers is generating waves in rural Sabah and Sarawak.

IMAGINE if you will, a small village in the remotest part of Sabah, where there are no roads and where the villagers are almost cut off from the outside world.

Now imagine if you lived in this community and your only source of electricity is a diesel generator, and you have to go on an arduous eight-hour trek through rough terrain to get your weekly supply of diesel.

This place actually exists, and it is called Kg Terian, 25km from Penampang and a five-hour walk from Crocker Range Park. But the villagers there do not have to endure the back-breaking ordeal of carrying diesel through the hilly landscape anymore, thanks to a 200-year-old technology

Through the enterprise of an engineer self-taught in this technology, as well as the efforts of various NGOs, a wave of change has come to Sabah and Sarawak.

Adrian Lasimbang showing a turbine which he assembled in his workshop. ‘There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing the smiles of the people when their village is lit up.’

It all started in 1999 in Long Lawen, an extremely remote village in upper Bakun, Sarawak. There are 70 households living there, and access to the village is via a logging road seven hours from the Bakun Dam. The villagers were among those displaced by the Bakun Dam project and told to relocate to a settlement. But they defied the eviction order and returned to their ancestral land.

Pre Project Activities -2

top left- measuring level, top right- measuring flow using flow meter, bottom left -topography and head measurement using theodolite, bottom right - measuring flow using salt gulp method

Sharing some information about micro hydro