Open Source Hardware Technology, A Sustainable Solution to Achieve Energy for All Global South

GUILLERMO PLEITAVINO; LUIS VILLA; CATUOGNO, CARLOS GUSTAVO; CATUOGNO, GUILLERMO; JEAN ALINEI

New York

Congreso; ICSD 2020; 2020

The world´s energy needs are currently a problem and are constantly increasing, while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital to avoid short-term climate change. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, which is crucial for poverty alleviation through job creation and better health and education systems.The lack of access to these basic services continues to delay these forgotten and unequal communities, in this context, the generation of energy with renewable resources using opensource technology emerges as a possible solution to this problem. The opensource technology is based on the philosophy of sharing knowledge, creating global communities where development is open and can be used both by end users and by other developers who enhance and make contributions to the state of the art of developed technology.In this work, a review of different opensource technologies in renewable energies at present is proposed, as well as analyzing and proposing different strategies to coordinate and integrate these developments among different interested sectors such as universities, governments and end users.Finally, different case studies implemented with opensource technologies by the authors in the Global South will be presented, where technological and social work has been carried out providing sustainable, reliable and affordable energy for the most vulnerable users.