Nicaragua: renewable energy technical training

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The Managua Simón Bolívar National Technological Center opened new laboratories and experimental classrooms to impart technical training on the use of renewable energy and electro-medicine. Maykel Ramirez, Director of the Simón Bolívar National Technological Center, said this first phase will cover development of capabilities in management and repair of photovoltaic equipment, solar panels and turbines for power generation.

Benefits of solar panels

In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that “the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating climate change, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise. These advantages are global. Hence the additional costs of the incentives for early deployment should be considered learning investments; they must be wisely spent and need to be widely shared”.