'A future on our terms': how community energy is lighting up Latin America
by Constance Malleret in Brasilia

The Guardian    Translate This Article
8 May 2025

On 8 May 2025 The Guardian reported: When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, Roxana Borda Mamani had to leave Mexico, where she was studying for her degree in rural development and food security, and return to her remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. At the time, the Indigenous community in Alto Mishagua had neither an internet connection nor a reliable energy source. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

...Borda began researching the components of an off-grid solar energy system: photovoltaic (PV) panels, a battery, an inverter and a charge controller.

Five years later, her community has a 400W solar system powering a 24-hour satellite internet connection and charging points for phones and torches next to a small school that was set up thanks to the new energy source.

A second phase, due to be implemented this year, will equip households with PV panels, providing the community's 50 families with regular electricity access and ending their reliance on expensive and polluting diesel generators.

The initiative was developed by Borda and five other students at the Energy Observatory, with the community's backing, support from the Canadian energy-access charity Light Up the World, and grants

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