New Solar Energy System Inaugurated in San Narciso

On Tuesday, the residents of San Narciso in the Orange Walk District gathered for the handover of plumbing materials for a new water system. Ministers of State Ramon Cervantes and Ramiro Ramirez, along with UNICEF Country Representative Alison Parker, presented the materials to the local water board. While in San Narciso, the junior ministers also inaugurated a new solar energy system for the village. Here’s more from the brief ceremony.

 

Ramon Cervantes, Minister of State, Foreign Affairs

“Within the framework of the project rational use and development of renewable energies in the SICA countries, the community of San Narciso was a beneficiary of this initiative under the national project through the use of renewable energy sources, ensuring potable drinking water access and safer communities in Belize.  Designed under this framework and financed by the Republic of China (Taiwan) through the Central American Commission on the Environment and Development. This project, albeit small, contributes to meeting the electricity demands that have skyrocketed over the past year.  The 22KV SMA grid tie solar system will assist the San Narciso water board with a saving of approximately one thousand, one hundred dollars monthly.  This saving can be used to expand and/or modify the current network to be more efficient.  It is also hoped that with such investment, water-saving measures will be put in place to reduce the water loss.  This investment here, of a hundred and thirty thousand, as my colleague said, benefited one thousand, one hundred households and a population of approximately six thousand, seven hundred and fifty persons.  We cannot deny the fact that climate change is a reality.”