Environmental Benefits: This project reduces greenhouse gas emissions by reducing 80% of the community?s reliance on diesel and kerosene for energy services. The new alternative solar system produced up to 17 kw/hour supported by 3 inverters with 9KW capacity. 200 person in Al-Qaba village benefited form from the system.
Health: The introduction of the renewable power system has allowed the community to operate refrigerators for 24 hours to refrigerate food and medicine and the equipments in the clinic.
Education: Improved children?s ability to study and learn by increasing their study hours at night.
Security: With lighting, community members feel safer moving around at night.
Information access: The new power system enabled the community to access TV, radio, mobiles, thereby improving their connection with outside world.
Partnership: This project is implemented by 2 NGOs Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) and AlMuntada/Young Scientists Club (YSC). Village council played a very important role to link between the community and the project management team
Capacity building: (PARC) staff trained and transferred the technology of the solar lighting to other less experienced grantee (YSC). The village council members trained on how to maintain the unit and how to run it.
Public awareness: Raised the awareness of the students between 14 to 17 year on renewable energy technology and its impact on the environment.
Gender: Women also trained in understanding which appliances use the most energy, and how to choose energy saving ones. They also learned how to use the devices that measure the electricity used by individual devices in their houses so they can know how best to conserve energy.