Energia para todos / energy for all | Cristián O´RYAN | TEDxElArrayán

me

hello everyone in the next ten

minutes

let’s know more deeply a

very important problem that suffers a

every five people in the world

to contextualize a little I tell you and

2012 was the director of operations

of a foundation that is dedicated to doing

post earthquake and emergency project and

it always caught my attention

communities and people that all

they expected it to be the state or the

government to solve their problems

when we talk about access to energy

to have a little more always when

one listens to the news

here in Chile newspapers television

we always hear words like

thermoelectric power plant or by

potential example that has chili for

produce solar energy on a large scale

but when for many other countries

places

we listen to other things we listen to things

as poverty social development

we hear about internal we listen

on candles and on lamps

kerosene and we started to understand that

something so simple igantzi we take for

done as is turning the light on and off

many countries for many people is

something almost impossible

so dayz my proposal is that we look

the problem of access to energy in

chile from a deeper place since

social development and not purely

productive and as from the

entrepreneurship innovation and

creativity

we can develop a private model

that impacts people and communities

that same 1012 I had to take charge of

energize a rural school in the sector

of the high plateau near Iquique with

solar panels but the truth that I in

this minute I did not know much energy

Solar not to say that anything less would

to size in that minute the impact

what could he have and with a technology

that is already available can

transform the lives of people

We did the project as a team together

the funds we installed the panels the

battery and so on

and after two months we returned to

make sure that you were working

surprise visit not so much because

We would like it to be a surprise but

As there was no sign we could not

warn that we are on our way

I remember that we came to school one

rural school and we play the

bell we call nobody would not know how

that was empty

so we said good let’s go in equal to

See how the electrical system is

working the same was the surprise of

we arrived in sections and saw

that the two rooms of the school were

doing class in one with a computer

connected to the internet and in the other room

with a television watching a movie

this was something that they could almost never

do because it depended on if they had

a generator and diesel oil for

to be able to run the generator was

so much the impact for me personally

and for the team

We said good that there is something here

something important

it’s worth continuing to develop and

keep investigating

obviously the first thing we thought

‘Well let’s replicate this project so

good results gave apply it

because surely more schools in the

same situation

After a while we went for a walk in the village

who is there to the village school

tiny

seeing him admiring him thinking now

super obvious and go up logical but we do not

we had realized until minutes ago

that if the school did not have energy the

town either and that happens at six o’clock

the afternoon if the students light

they went home they could not study

they could not read it was difficult to cook

imagine a family life in those

completely dark conditions the

local entrepreneurs are not going to

produce

as you can imagine everything a tremendous

tremendous problem returned to santiago and

I started to investigate about this was something

new to me so I got together with

some Chilean experts had some

Skype conversations with experts and

with people who knew the subject outside of

chile and I noticed or apprenticed that in

the world there are a thousand 500 million

people who live totally the

darkness

imagine a country like the size of

China

in this minute you without light and that your

inhabitants lived with candles with

kerosene lamps with lanterns the

pile and that every year die a

million people nothing more than by

accident or fire and burns

suffocation intoxication by the use of

these harmful fuels was

in this process that lasted several months

that already investigates and and I realize

this problem when it’s my turn to do

charge in the foundation of another project

but it had nothing to do with energy

solar

nor does the altiplano was

develop and implement the first

children’s garden in a community

Pehuenche in the sector of high Bio Bio

this is from the angels towards the

cordillera plus minus 4 now a place

pretty extreme very cute problem

near the border with Argentina and what

first I see when the first came

I realize when he arrived is that

the family and the communities either

they are connected to the electrical network

then how in a country like Chile

that supposedly did not exist this

problem and that the energy problem

it was clearly productive

I went to the community and I realize that

yes there was this problem also we

we realized that in these places the

large solar panels that one knows

the big systems with battery

they do not work for two reasons either

not only scalable and because the

initial investment is so high that nobody

can access it considering that the

technology is so I did I

I got a solar lamp that

they distributed countries like india and

Africa

I think that at this minute the only one

people of that type in Chile and the

I gave the lady otilia mom of

eight children and who lives literally in the

tip of the hill with the only condition

that she told me when she will return

if it had served him the same it had been

your experience with these lamps

solar

I remember arriving a month

then christian tells me this is the

best gift that I have done on the road

now at night we have light we

we feel much safer and in my

family my son can read and study

a little more in the afternoon

I can even charge my phone

cell and a small forward with

what we hear music on the day

also with what generates being in candles

can save it and spend it on

feeding on firewood for winter

or in transportation and for me that was like

the wow moment

in fact everything that came thinking

a few months ago you are in this minute

concretizing and it was as evident that

there was an opportunity

of course when the opportunity

presents in one has to go taking

decisions

so I went for my cerebral side

more logical and make a tree decisions

with 4 would have the first alternative

was they do not do anything that everything would continue such

which was and I sat in day

problem is alternative I was not attracted

a lot

the second alternative was to deepen

a project this type in the

organization that I was but

I thought I was not going to have the grades

freedom for a problem this

wingspan

so I have only two options left

one was important solar internal

from outside and distribute them in Chile or

develop something in chile that had

added value that took into account

our culture and have a look

Latin American and why not the future

world was telling this to a

my friend tells me christian you have

than meet a friend of mine

entrepreneur just like you who is

developing a project that seems like

goes on the same line as good not

we lose nothing as entrepreneurs together

Coffee with people all the time I

agreement that we meet with those who

comes with the brand my current partners and

we hook up altiro

we are all in the same line was

as we said good

let’s do this and take the

things that we are already moving forward

formalize and at least one company and

Thus was born the first company lar

Chile dedicated to democratizing the

access to energy for all

people

based on an open model where the

people can design and create their

own integrated solutions also

an impact social mission and we are

Today we have been around for two years

and we are developing a project in

Haitian with united America and here in

chile a project with fosis for

most vulnerable families in this country

we hope there are many more projects

obviously my proposal and via

tell all this is are two one

that we have or see Chile as a

country a very good platform for

develop new ideas , new

ventures and hopefully these

Idea undertakings have an impact

positive for society and on the other

side that one has the eyes always

open to see the problems that we

surround

hello opportunities more than problems

because in the end the solution depends on

one does not necessarily depend on the

person to the front or the state

thank you very much

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