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Stylized Text: Disaster Preparedness - Equipment.

Picture of a solar powered satellite phone.Photovoltaic systems can be used to power a wide variety of equipment in disasters. A growing number of emergency management and disaster relief organizations use PV equipment in their daily operations.

In the Publications section, you will find the History of Applying Photovoltaics to Disaster Relief report, which describes many real-life applications of PV systems that have been used in disaster response. The report User Evaluation of Prototype PV Equipment for Disasters describes a project in which Sandia National Laboratories provided funding for six PV-powered disaster demonstration projects for various disaster relief organizations.

Presently, the Florida Energy Office of the Department of Community Affairs has provided funding for FSEC to purchase several new PV systems, which are used for training and application demonstration projects in Florida. The following equipment will be used for this education program.

Item
Manufacturer
Lantern
Kyocera Solar
Radio
Freeplay
Radio Flashlight
Feldstein
SolarVerter Case
Patrick Technologies
Portable Energy System
SunWise
Portable Generator
SunWise
Portable Power Tote
Applied Power
Man-Pac
United Solar Systems
Radio Weather Station
PacComm