chambamontera peru

• A local sustainable energy management scheme:
• Chambamontera is an isolated community in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
• More than 2 hours away from nearest large town
• Most people are dependent on subsistence farming such as small-scale coffee

  farming and livestock
• Nearly half the population live on US$2 a day
• Development is very restricted by a lack of electricity for heat, light and power
• Due to the low populated isolated community it was uneconomic to build an

  electricity grid to serve the area