TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF EQUIPMENT FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION RESULTING FROM THE LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE POLYNESIAN PROGRAMMES OF THE EIGHTIES

摘要

The information gathered as operating manager when implementing the first photovoltaic rural electrification and technology transfer programme carried out to date in the world in French Polynesia from 1978 to 1990 are detailed.The technical developments of equipment and the work in progress at the GENEC Cadarache within French, European or IEA programmes in order to improve some components or appliances and make up for certains deficiencies are presented.This involves accelerated aging tests, Standardization work, development of high efficiency equipment. Non technical barriers are often emphazised. Technical barriers also exists. Considerable work in many domains of small PV systems remains to be done so as to combine all the conditions required to implement successful large programmes in developed as well as in developing countries.