Project Brief:

The objective of the Solar Home System (SHS) is to provide energy access to the households of off-grid or heavy load shedding areas of central and southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The scheme is meant to deliver socio-economic benefits to households. The provision of an energy that provide high quality lighting which is clean and convenient has many positive impacts on the rural households. It also provided households with energy for radios & charging cell phones. This energy source also has positive impacts by displacing other energy sources such as candles or kerosene for lighting which can have associated fire and indoor air quality risk as well as associated emissions reductions.

The scheme covered 2900 homes of un-electrified/heavy load shedding affected areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Un-electrified/heavy load shedding affected villages/sites having 100 houses or more were considered for electrification on top priority. The 2^nd priority was given to villages/sites having less than 100 houses.