For more than four decades, Casa Pueblo has promoted the energy transition in Attached – And Puerto Rico–, redefining the sun as the primary fuel to bring light to people. And now, within the framework of its 45th anniversary, the Community Self -Management Organization develops an initiative that promises to accelerate the implementation of clean energy solutions, here and global level.
It is about Community Laboratory for Energy Transitiona scientific effort that will allow Casa Pueblo – founded in 1980 – to insert itself in the field of energy innovation. It will be oriented in three pillars: education and training, research and accompaniment to communities that want to promote energy transitionin Puerto Rico and places like USA and Latin Americahe explained Arturo Massol DeyáExecutive Director of the entity.
“We want to place the community as a manager of that knowledge, learn to solve their problems and support the energy transition in other places, especially now that, if you look at what is happening in the United States, the agenda is anti -science, antirrerec public knowledge Climate changeenergy antitransition to renewables. Then, this laboratory is even more urgent and necessary before that panorama we are facing ”held.
According to the biologist, the priority of the project will be to bring the interconnection of micrordes, known as “micro -redes networks” from which they communicate to maximize their use and expand the benefit for the community. Massol Deyá said that the idea was recently tested, by linking the Micro -Rred from Casa Pueblo with the new Micro -Rred of the Plaza de la Energy Independence, describing this step as something “novel”.
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“We are talking about the Micro -Redes Net That a MicroRred talks about another is novel, that does not exist ”he said. “We already made a pilot at Casa Pueblo. (But) there is not an installation for a person to have electricity. There, we are answering questions that go to innovation, what you have to do to have an ecosystem, a network of micro -redes. The other issue is that we are generating real data of all these facilities and of all these works with variables that are real climatic, with human variables of consumption patterns, with things you can not simulate or reproduce in a university laboratory, ”added telephone with The new day.
The expectation is that students, professors and scientists of the Academy visit and stay in Apunjas, where the laboratory will be located, to collaborate and answer the questions of Casa Pueblo. The organization already has Mariposa Casa, a residence – coupled by a Microred Solar connected to the Plaza de la Energhetic Independence – that offers accommodation to students.
“The laboratory becomes the physical part that viable that these education and research processes will be”Massol Deyá said.
The leader of the organization founded by his parents, Alexis Massol González and Tinti Deyá Díaz –Falling in 2021–, he mentioned that these collaborative agreements with universities will be a “starting point” to attract more educational institutions. He added that organizations such as For nature They have also joined the effort, providing a donation of $ 10,000.
On the other hand, he stressed that the plan is for the initiative to develop in a “research campus”. For these purposes, the “Living Laboratory” will be composed of the micro -redes that the Community Self -Management Organization has developed in Adjuntas: the Micorred de Casa Pueblo, the Micro -Rred of the Plaza de la Energhetic Independence Square and the microredes of attachments of attachments solar town in the urban area.
The project will also have a scientific laboratory at the facilities of Casa Pueblo.
At present, the entity is in the process of recruiting scientific personnel that will work in the new community space – which will begin to operate formally in January – including the person who will direct it. Massol Deyá said the director of the center will be “a high caliber person”, with experience in large -scale renewable energy projects.
On the other hand, he acknowledged that the economic aspect is “the missing ingredient.” “We have a goal of initially lifting $ 450,000 for the first two years”he anticipated. This sum will be used for – among other things – cover the hiring of the director of the laboratory and initial administrative costs, as well as acquiring essential equipment to start operations.
“The laboratory is going to be a tool for the local development of attachments, with implications in the economy of Puerto Rico, To know with knowledge the greatest challenge facing Puerto Rico at this time, which is the energy agenda, where the government is looking back and we want to look at pa’l front. And for front there are questions, there is uncertainty. And with the laboratory we have a tool to think, learn and answer those questions ourselves, with the input of others, but it is no longer another to tell us what to do, but we will be in a better position of us to say what we are going to do. And that is powerful, to be able to raise your own knowledge, ”said Massol Deyá.