CEIRD staff and partners visit rural new home in Ifrane Region to provide advise and carry preliminary study for solar/wind systems installation for rural community.
CEIRD staff and partners explaining the advantages of renewable energy and providing assistance in selecting the appropriate solar/wind system in a new eco- inn near Ifrane city.
Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating Clean Energy Systems (Solar/Wind) in the Middle-Atlas
Within its mission of regional
development, the CEIRD promotes renewable energy use (Solar/Wind) in close collaboration
with all stakeholders mainly the local population.
A rural School, located at the neighbourhood of the University, Ait Lahcen was selected
for implementing a solar/wind system through the support and contribution of Hand in Hand
Association. This initiative benefited 120 scholars and few teachers who discovered light
and water through local energy sources wind and sun. This allows them to stay longer at
school mainly in winter and to have better sanitary conditions.
The School now operates as a regional Solar /Wind laboratory and contributes to raise
environmental awareness in addition to the benefit of well being.
The small village located in the surrounding of the school is now considering renewable
energy system following the assistance and advice of the researchers from the AUI CEIRD
and the Solar /Wind laboratory of Ait Lahcen School.
A pilot site for a solar thermic system at Al Akhawayn University Campus
This unique education experiment
in the Middle Atlas aims to raise environmental awareness by demonstration of the use of
solar power energy. It is an opportunity for students/interns at the AUI CEIRD to carry
solar projects, to test the efficiency of the system and make recommendation for extending
the pilot experiment to other university buildings.
Through promoting local renewable energy sources, the CEIRD will contribute to
environmental education, to the reduction of energy consumption at the University and to
the global greenhouse gas emissions reduction, to setting an example within the region and
encouraging the community to set similar solar systems.
Organization of the Third Regional Environmental day by AUI-CEIRD, AUI-Environment Club Students and the Association "Environment For All"
The CEIRD contributed to this project by providing the preliminary study and follow up of the system installation.
Egg cooking preliminary test demonstration to local community representatives and AUI CEIRD partners (Forestry Department, Ecotourism investors)
Demonstration on prototypes
 | Solar oven for cooking |
| Wind funnel for PV production at the CEIRD extension |
Dr Karl Steinmüller, Director of Z_Punkt Berlin - Germany
On Field experimental Site of the AUI CEIRD
| Solar oven prototypes testing |
| Wind funnel for PV demonstration |
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