Solar street light illuminates Nepal earthquake stricken area

(in the Nepalese earthquake, most of the solar street lamps were damaged except for a small part of the damage.)

"In May 10th, there were 4 aftershocks in Nepal, but shops, restaurants and other businesses in Kathmandu are slowly returning to business."." In the early morning of May 11th, Deng Zhibo habitually picked up his mobile phone to learn about the latest developments in nepal.

Deng Zhibo is China electric power construction group, China Survey and Design Research Institute Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Central Hospital) Nepal solar streetlight project manager, more than two years ago of the Nepal solar street lighting project, as the project manager after he would often appear in the high streets and back lanes in Kathmandu.

"The earthquake occurred in Nepal in the afternoon of April 25th. Fortunately, I left home in April 21st and escaped the robbery."." Deng Zhibo recalled that on the day of the earthquake, including the company's leader in the nearly 50 telephone calls, are asking about their personal safety situation.

And let the people of Deng Zhibo and was relieved in the 8.1 earthquake in Nepal, Central Institute of solar streetlight installed in addition to a small part of the damaged, most of them can work normally, bringing a light to the people of Kathmandu after the earthquake.

"A few days ago, Nepal Electricity Authority officials gave us an e-mail request us in the end, the communication path of aftershocks, the basic recovery situation, will send technical personnel to a small part of the damaged solar streetlight maintenance." In the past few days, the company leaders and employees are always paying attention to the latest developments in Nepal. As long as the conditions permit, they will send technical personnel to Nepal, said Wang Dayu, manager of the water conservancy and water transfer engineering company of the Central South hospital.

As the first overseas solar street light contracting project in Zhongnan Institute, in May 2012, after receiving the relevant information of the project, the Central South Hospital set up a bidding team promptly and studied the bidding documents in a timely manner. At the same time, in order to meet the requirements of the tender documents of the project, Zhongnan Institute is actively seeking cooperation with manufacturers with related qualifications and forming a consortium with them to participate in the bidding of the project.

Wang Dayu, was involved in the project bidding companies up to 10, after fierce competition, Zhongnan Hospital with excellent technical solution and offer better judges will be favored to win the project, after various efforts, won the bid. The solar street lighting project funding for the Asian Development Bank loan project site for the five urban areas of Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu, including more than 800 sets of solar streetlight equipment supply, installation and commissioning work.

Under such a magnitude earthquake, why can solar street lights stand up? Wang Dayu explained that besides solid materials, a solid foundation for the street lamp also played a crucial role. The foundations of each street light were dug 1.5 wide and 1.5 meters deep, surrounded by cement. In addition to the 20 sets installed in the temple walls, road lights damaged, the other street lamps are mostly intact, still normal power supply.

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