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The water tank for the Agrosolar project, orange trees and (in the foreground) remains of a maize crop

Old and new water projects

March 22, 2018

ADIC is again working to deliver water to communities in the hot, arid zone to the north of Masaya, called El Timal. Today we paid a visit to an old project and a possible new one. In 2014, with support from the British embassy, ADIC carried out its Agrosolar project in a small, remote community […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, solar energy | 1 Response

Drawing water from the original well in Cuadrante 81

Solar-powered irrigation system starts to pump water

March 8, 2015

The ‘Agrosolar’ project, funded by the British embassy, has begun to pump water to irrigate crops right at the start of Nicaragua’s dry season. El Timal is in the almost forgotten area between Nicaragua’s two large lakes, only about 20km from the international airport but with practically no transport connections to the nearest town. Into […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: climate change, Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua

Drought hits Central America

Drought hits Central America

August 7, 2014

The government is blaming it on the warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Niño, while scientists are disputing how much warming has actually occurred. But whatever the cause the drought that has hit Central America and extends south into Colombia is very real. The rainy season should have begun in May, but three […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, climate change, Masaya, solar energy

A house in Cuadrante 84, El Timal

A community with origins in the ‘contra’ war

June 17, 2014

A short time after the revolution brought the Sandinistas to power in 1979, Reagan’s US government illegally began to fund the armed resistance in the north of the country, who soon became known as the ‘contras’. The struggle against the well-armed contra and the simultaneous economic blockade severely tested the new government. Although it won […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua

House in Los Laureles with solar panel installed on the roof

Solar power arrives at Los Laureles and Palo Blanco

November 25, 2013

The latest small stage of our solar project (‘Proyecto Sol’) brings to just 202 the total of households where electricity has been installed in the rural parts of Masaya since 2005, for a total investment of just over $200,000. We’re still working in the isolated area between Nicaragua’s two big lakes, which ironically is less […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, solar energy | 1 Response

Solar map of Central America

Solar power has role to play in energy revolution

November 18, 2013

In recent stories in the Nicaragua Dispatch, Nicaragua has been described as a renewable energy paradise and as ranking third in the Latin America renewables market. But neither story mentions what has become Nicaragua’s forgotten resource: solar energy. Perhaps this is not surprising as the government’s own assessments of its achievement in moving away from […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua | 2 Responses

Planning starts on new Masaya projects

Planning starts on new Masaya projects

August 22, 2013

Proyecto Sol (‘Project Sun’) has been installing solar panels in remote rural communities for nine years. It’s about to start a new phase in the community known simply as ‘Sector 80’, an isolated area to the north of Lake Nicaragua.  This community, which had no electricity at all and still has no water supply, received […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Masaya, solar energy | 5 Responses

Solar electricity – keeping people connected

Solar electricity – keeping people connected

February 23, 2013

It’s coming up to seven years since we installed the first solar kit in one of the rural communities near Masaya which don’t have electricity.  Our original volunteer engineer, Marc Ricart (from Barcelona – centre in photo), left installers like Norman Padilla (right) with the skills to continue the scheme. ‘Proyecto Sol’ has now brought […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua

Palo Alto gets connected

Palo Alto gets connected

April 1, 2012

Following a substantial grant from the British Embassy in Costa Rica (which also covers Nicaragua) towards Proyecto Sol, and a new donation from Midland Heart, the Birmingham-based housing association, we were able to extend the solar panel project to yet another community. It’s in the very isolated area between Nicaragua’s two big lakes, called Palo […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, solar energy

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