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Dear Bernardus (and indeed anyone else interested), It seems as though the previous responses have provided an excellent technical resource for building the plant, I thought I would pitch in on how you could make it potentially pay for itself. We've been operating solar-based microgrids for some time now in East Africa. We've built a device that allows you to track all the aspects of the installation (power being generated, voltage of system, power draw of each user over time etc…) remotely from an online dashboard. It also does all metering, payments and switching through integration with mobile money platforms. Essentially it can work as an energy vending machine. People buy power using their mobile phones, using the same pay-as-you-go method as topping up their airtime. Although it has mainly been used to manage solar microgrids, there is no reason why it could not be used on a hydro-based system such as the one you are describing. I say this in the hope that it might be interesting, conscious of not wanting to sully this forum with commercial plugs. If this does sound interesting please contact me off this forum at sam@steama.co

Sam