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February 2008 Mae Wei Micro-Hydro Installation Report and Photos and Video 
Read the latest Blog entry from the ESP Students at Mae La Refugee Camp.
Check out these awesome photos (Mae La, Umphiem Mai , Nu Po, Mae Ma Ra Luang, Mae La Oon, ESP) from the Refugee Camp Hybrid Installs!
Check out these awesome photos (Mae La, Umphiem Mai , Nu Po, Mae Ma Ra Luang, Mae La Oon, ESP) from the Refugee Camp Hybrid Installs!
Read a blog from the Engineering Study Program Students at Mae La Refugee Camp.
Check out pictures of the joint BGET/ESP biodigester at Mae La Agricultural School . Read the installation report.
Check out these awesome photos (Mae La, Umphiem Mai , Nu Po, Mae Ma Ra Luang, Mae La Oon, ESP) from the Refugee Camp Hybrid Installs! Read Angie and Arie's Installation Report from Mae Ra Ma Luang and Mae La Oon.
Check out these awesome photos (Mae La , Umphiem Mai , Nu Po ) from the Refugee Camp Hybrid Installs! Read Angie and Arie's Installation Report from Nu Po.
BGET's Dirctor, Salinee Taranvanan appears in the December 2006 SEI Newsletter.
Photovoltaic Standardization, Certification and Labelling for Thailand Presentation 1/12/06 Intercontinental Hotel, Bangkok– Thailand Chris Greacen, Ph.D.
Read Angie and Arie's Volunteer Blog!! Life as a BGET volunteer and updates on the Refugee Camp Hybrid Project.

Towards Sustainability for Thailand's Solar Home Systems. Chris Greacen. (ppt, 2.6 MB) November 2006. Presentation at School of Renewable Energy Technology (SERT).
Sustainability and Thailand's Solar Home System: Is it still achievable? (pdf, 1.9M) Fredrik Bjarnegard. 6 July 2006. Renewable Energy Conference, BITEC, Bangkok. (ppt, 2.5M)

Sustainability and Solar Home Systems: data from BGET'S experience in Tak. (Thai ppt, 1.8M)
Presentation to Awbawtaw officials at meeting related to transfer of ownership of SHS Bangkok. 8 June 2006.

Threatened Sustainability: the Uncertain Future of Thailand's Solar Home Systems. (doc, 1.4M)
Andrew Lynch, Chris Greacen, Salinee Tavaranan, Fredrik Bjarnegard. Paper commissioned by EU. 6 June 2006.

BGET semi-annual report (pdf, 104K) April 2006

June 2006 Home Power Magazine Article: "Solar Lights for a Dark Time in Burma" (pdf, 113K)
Discusses BGET's work to provide solar electricity for 28 Karen clinics in Burma war zones. High resolution version (pdf, 3370K)

Jan 25 - Feb 15, 2006 Huai Kra Thing microhydro installation (pdf, 1404K)
Installation of Thailand's first "pump as turbine" micro-hydro project. Collaborative project with village residents, refugee camp engineering students, US students, and NGOs providing 3 kW to Haui Kra Thing village

Older Presentations, Reports, ...

Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2005 Microhydro survey & performance upgrade (pdf, 416K) Survey for micro-hydro in Huai Kra Thing (scheduled installation Feb 2006); upgrade of installation in Mae Sa Pau (installed Feb 2005)

14-25 November, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 566K)
Mae Wa Luang technician training (solar diagnosis & repair); refugee camp vocational student training (solar survey)

31 Oct - 11 November, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 36K)
Meeting with Solartron Ltd on equipment failures and funding; presentations to or-bor-tors in Tha Song Yang and Mae Ramat to arrange trainings.

Selected high-resolution photos of training activities Sept & Oct 2005 (zip, 44.7 M)

17 - 28 October, 2005 BGET Report (pdf, 749K)
Back-to-back 3-day technician trainings at Tambon Mae Tan and Tambon Mae Song

BGET Kick-off report covering activities through 19 October (pdf, 981K)

Sept, 2005 - PV and Microhydro System Training in Mae La Refugee Camp (Photo journal)
Five-day training for 60 students from the Mae La Engineering Study Program.

Sept, 2005 - PV technician training in Huai Kra Ting village, Tak province (Photo journal)
Three-day training on solar electric maintenance and repair for 12 local technicians.

February, 2005 - PV solar/microhydro workshop (photo journal)
Before we knew we were BGET, we taught a workshop on solar electricity for medics from remote Karen Burma, for Thai villagers, and for refugee camp vocational students. In the hands-on class participants built 5 solar electric systems destined for Karen Burma clinics and one for the Mae La refugee camp. The training covered O&M and repair of Thai government-installed PV systems, as well as theory and hands-on micro-hydro training.

March, 2004 - PV solar clinics workshop (open virtual magazine and select pages 42-5)
Workshop on solar electricity for medics from Karen Burma. Participants built 11 solar electric systems that were subsequently installed in remote clinics.

January 2004 - E Wi Jo community micro-hydro project (photo journal).
E Wi Jo is downstream from Kre Khi about 3 hours by foot. This site provides one light in each of the village's 40 households. Palang Thai provided turbine design, system design, and construction oversight.

November, 2003 - Biogas Workshop, Mytkyina, Burma (photo journal)
Palang Thai hands-on workshop taught by Govinda Devkota, a Nepali biogas expert who has trained many of the the thousands of masons that have built over 123,000 biogas digestors in Nepal.

January 2003 - Kre Khi community micro-hydro project, Thailand (photo journal)
Palang Thai worked with villagers, the Taipei Overseas Peace Service (TOPS) and US high school students to build this 500 watt microhydro that provides light for a school, temple, clinic, and for village battery charging.

June, 2002 - Renewable Energy Workshops in Burma (pdf, 252K)
A report by Chris Greacen on renewable energy workshops on solar and micro-hydropower in Myitkyina and Tougnoo Burma that appeared in the Dec 2003 issue of Home Power Magazine.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 December 2009 )
 
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