Solar Home System (SHS)

Solar Home System (SHS) Program

 In today’s world energy is a big issue as our traditional source of fossil fuel and other source reducing its inventory gradually and using this source also create environment pollution as well. Concentrating on this issue and having concern of environment, people start searching renewable source of energy and find that our solar power or light from sunlight can be a solution to mitigate the problem. In world statistics, many countries already involved with this system like USA is one of the prime examples.

15th November 2010, RDF has signed an agreement with Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) of GoB bilateral project for doing work on Solar Home System Component under the Green Resource Mobilization Program (GRMP) of RDF. RDF vigorously started this activity and by the end of June 2013, RDF established 221 branch offices across the country for operation. Up to April 2017, RDF has installed a number of 1,51,730 Solar Home Systems among the users of the off-grid areas covering 36 districts in Bangladesh. RDF’s growth rate is 75% over the previous year and hope the growth rate will further increase in coming days. Up to April 2017, RDF produced 4.18 MW electricity through Solar Home System.  Pictorial & statistical data of Solar Home System are shown below:

Date of agreement with IDCOL:	15/11/2010
Number of Areas:	26
Number of Branches:	192
Number of District:	47
Number of beneficiaries:	5,31,055
Power generated (KW) to the rural user level:	4.18 MW
Power saved from National grid line:	4.18 MW
Installation Growth Rate (%):	75%
Capacity of the packages (WP):	20 WP, 40 WP, 50 WP, 60 WP, 65 WP, 75 WP, 85 WP, 90 WP

 Monthly Sales Trend of RDF Solar Home System (SHS) during July-2015 to June-2016

S/N	Name of the Month	Nos. of Installation in 2015-16
1	July	2381
2	August	1869
3	September	1065
4	October	1113
5	November	1139
6	December	663
7	January	687
8	February	796
9	March	916
10	April	781
11	May	409
12	June	276
Total:		12095