{"id":188,"date":"2015-12-18T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:35:26","slug":"syrian-refugee-camp-in-jordan-to-utilize-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/syrian-refugee-camp-in-jordan-to-utilize-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to utilize solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian refugee camp in Jordan will use solar energy to help aid a growing need for power in the camps.<\/p>\n<p>Ikea and the United Nations Refugee Agency are teaming up to build a new solar farm for the Azraq Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. The camp is currently home to at least 27,000 Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Syrian Refugee Camps In Jordan To Receive Solar Power <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z6h6shtTV1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z6h6shtTV1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleantech?src=hash\">#cleantech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cleantechnica\/status\/676769486179975168\">December 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The joint project between Ikea and the United Nations Refugee Agency, known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeafoundation.org\/programmes\/brighter-lives\/\" title=\"<em>Brighter Lives for Refugees<\/em>\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Brighter Lives for Refugees<\/em><\/strong><\/a> campaign, plans to use solar energy to help refugees in a number of ways.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The project provides refugees with solar lanterns, so that both education and business activities can continue after the sun goes down.<\/li>\n<li>Solar street lights are provided to allow refugees to hold community gatherings in the nighttime hours.<\/li>\n<li>Construction of a 6 MW, grid-connected solar farm will begin in order to bring more modern conveniences to the camp.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDrQ_fw_EM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2015\/12\/15\/syrian-refugee-camps-jordan-receive-solar-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clean Technica<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sun_in_the_sky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Carla Nunziata \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian refugee camp in Jordan will utilize solar energy in various ways to help aid a growing need for power in the camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,36,38,37,35],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-ikea","tag-jordan","tag-refugee","tag-solar-farm","tag-syria"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}