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How will 1000-3000 (such a wide estimate) will be able to fulfil their electricity needs with only 100-200kv?

OK lets do the basics... In my opinion, an average household will have at least 3 bulbs of 40watts (120watts) + 3 fans of 70 watts (210 watts) + television of 200 watts + fridge/refrigrator of 350 watts + computer of 50 watts + mobile phone chargers, extra lights, washing machine of 1200 watts and iron of 1300 watts etc.

You basically need more than 2-3kw for each household...in bigger houses, the needs rises above 6000kw very frequently and in my local area for example I see people complaining about lack of electricity even after using 6500kw generators...

So if you basically calculate the consumption of electricity with the figure mentioned by you, its good enough to fulfil the needs of 50 houses... if you exaggerate it, take it close to 100 maximum... not more than that...

Another example is, an average-to-medium sized industrial unit will consume 100-300kv of electricity generators from each of these micro hydel projects and this is only good to suffice the needs of one industry. But everything must be appreciated and the biggest benefit of these projects is the water reservoirs and availability of water, the electricity is kind of cherry on the cake

You are overestimating the power consumption in those rural mountainous areas.

All they have is a couple of bulbs, fan, phone charger and that's it. Only a few of the houses have fridges and TV's and irons.

Heck, that's the case in my village in plains of Punjab!
 
You are overestimating the power consumption in those rural mountainous areas.

All they have is a couple of bulbs, fan, phone charger and that's it. Only a few of the houses have fridges and TV's and irons.

Heck, that's the case in my village in plains of Punjab!
If you exaggerate further the figure will still not cross the mark of 200.... Where I do appreciate the efforts of the Federal and Provincial government, it is not a revolution as we need just over 6000mw of electricity + another 20,000 - 30,000mw of electricity in the next 10-12 years... and this mini projects are good for remote towns but not enough for eliminating loadshedding.

The project of 2mw is good enough for providing electricity to 2000 houses if we assume each house will only consume 1kw of electricity and you know 1kw is very basic... some poor people may not consume a lot but middle class families will easily exceed that mark so the average of 1kw is very conservative estimate. Some medium sized industries easily consume over a 1 mw of electricity so you know how significant the production of electricity is...
 
Now that's interesting...

How will 1000-3000 (such a wide estimate) will be able to fulfil their electricity needs with only 100-200kv?

OK lets do the basics... In my opinion, an average household will have at least 3 bulbs of 40watts (120watts) + 3 fans of 70 watts (210 watts) + television of 200 watts + fridge/refrigrator of 350 watts + computer of 50 watts + mobile phone chargers, extra lights, washing machine of 1200 watts and iron of 1300 watts etc.

You basically need more than 2-3kw for each household...in bigger houses, the needs rises above 6000kw very frequently and in my local area for example I see people complaining about lack of electricity even after using 6500kw generators...

So if you basically calculate the consumption of electricity with the figure mentioned by you, its good enough to fulfil the needs of 50 houses... if you exaggerate it, take it close to 100 maximum... not more than that...

Another example is, an average-to-medium sized industrial unit will consume 100-300kv of electricity generators from each of these micro hydel projects and this is only good to suffice the needs of one industry. But everything must be appreciated and the biggest benefit of these projects is the water reservoirs and availability of water, the electricity is kind of cherry on the cake
i have extensively seen such generators in kagahan and upper manshera region as well as parts of upper buneer..yes it supports so many people why?
because on average a household only uses it for light... they dont need fans and dont own fridges, irons or washing machine most of the time.

on average a household use is restricted to 200-300 watts at best

however i think i may have over estimated the no of households by adding another "zero"

mostly a small village of may be 200-300 household used such plants that were self financed through NGOs plus donations

on khan khwar near bahsham there was a village which i visited as part of my field work, they told me initially the power was enough but since people gotten rich and now are buying TV sets , washing machine it is not...so yes in long run power depends grow exponentially and than its not enough..
but in manshera region i have seen plants running for 10 years with average depend of just 200-300watts
 
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