Environmental

Kheis Municipality in the Northern Cape Province – Micro-grids, South Africa

Internationally, over the past 2 years, PEER has been in working with its sister company, PEER Africa, to develop and install 507 distributive generation micro-grids in the informal settlement in the !Kheis Municipality in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa.  

Each home – described as an informal shelter constructed of bits and pieces of tin and/or wood – is equipped with a 7.5 kW PV solar home system kit, which includes a PV panel, kitchen appliances, cell phone charging station, a color TV, radio and computer.  These shelters are completely “off the grid”, since the central grid connection is far and already insecure and overloaded, operating completely on battery storage, i.e. DC current only.

District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility (DC SEU)

PEER participates as a teaming partner, primarily responsible for providing program management, engineering, and account management services. PEER engineers have worked with a range of customers, including business owners, architects, engineers, vendors, trade allies to promote the installation of cost-effective and efficiency improvements in customers’ future and existing buildings/facilities as per their site specific needs. The PEER team performs energy and water utility bills analyses, and estimates cost savings for implementation and utilization of a variety of energy efficient and conserving measures appropriate to the project in office buildings, commercial properties, and residential apartment complexes in the Washington, DC area.