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Marisol village

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations7
System facts26
Sources reviewed8
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

Marisol is a remote community on the Alto Huayabamba River in Pachiza District, San Martín, Peru. The record spans two distinct installations. In November 2011, SMART Hydro Power installed a 5 kW floating hydrokinetic turbine for a village then described as 28 families/approximately 240 residents, supplemented by 24 very small household solar systems. Floods, rising water, and debris subsequently damaged or disabled that first configuration. A redesigned hybrid system reported operating from November 2014 combined a river turbine, more than 1.2 kW of PV, a 48 V battery bank, backup generation, and a SMART energy-management system for roughly 60 households. Older catalog figures of 2 kW PV and 20 kWh storage were not corroborated by the supplier's current project page and are retained only as legacy values.

Research status
The 2014 hybrid rebuild is documented as commissioned and is still presented as a completed reference project by SMART Hydro Power, but no independent recent operating report, turbine replacement history, battery health, load data, or current service count was found through July 2026. The 2011 floating-turbine installation should not be described as continuously operating; project literature explicitly records its failure/inactivity before the later redesign.
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
-7.14200, -77.07479
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Marisol village?

7 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Comité de Electrificación Marisol

Community electrification partner [2]

Organization

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Peru

Development-cooperation partner supporting the electrification initiative. [3][4]

Organization

Marisol community

Owner/user community and contributor to local operation and tariff collection. [6][7]

Organization

Marisol Electrification Committee

Local community organization involved in managing the electricity service and community participation. [5][7]

Organization

Regional Government of San Martín

Local-government project partner [2]

Organization

Regional Government of San Martín / regional energy directorate

Regional-government implementation partner and participant in the 2011 installation. [3][4]

Organization

SMART Hydro Power

Turbine and hybrid-system technology supplier and project developer for both the 2011 installation and later rebuild. [3][7]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
2 [1]
KW Hydro
5 [1]
Storage
20 kWh [1]
Supplier-reported solar PV
Greater than 1.2 kWp [2]
Battery bank
24 two-volt batteries connected as a 48 V bank [2]
Archived system ratings
2 kW solar, 5 kW hydro, and 20 kWh storage [1]
Reported levelized cost
Approximately US$0.30/kWh [2]
Initial hydrokinetic capacity
5 kW floating river turbine installed in November 2011. [3][4]
Initial household solar component
24 pico-PV systems using approximately 5 W panels, alongside 51 reported community connections in the 2011 account. [4]
Rebuilt-system photovoltaic capacity
More than 1.2 kW according to SMART Hydro Power's project page. A legacy project catalog listed 2 kW; the difference could not be reconciled and should not be silently normalized. [7][8]
Rebuilt-system battery bank
24 x 2 V cells connected as a 48 V bank. Ampere-hour rating, chemistry, usable energy, and power were not stated on the supplier page. A legacy catalog's 20 kWh value remains unverified. [7][8]
Community served
The first installation was described as serving 28 families or 240 residents; the later hybrid reference describes approximately 60 households. These reflect different phases and reporting dates. [3][4][7]
Reported electricity cost
Approximately US$0.30/kWh in the supplier's later project description; tariff date and current applicability are not specified. [7]
Reported environmental benefit
WAME's project profile reports about 5,058 kg of CO2 avoided per year and more than 100 beneficiaries; this is a project-reported estimate rather than independently audited output. [6]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Energy-management system

SMART Hydro Power — SMART Energy Management System

Coordinates the river turbine, PV, battery bank, and backup generator. [2]

02

Hydrokinetic generation

SMART Hydro Power

River-turbine system; model and verified field rating not stated on the reviewed project page. [2]

03

Hydrokinetic turbine

SMART Hydro Power

Original floating, three-blade river turbine with diffuser and 5 kW generator. Later project material describes a redesigned river-turbine installation but does not clearly publish its current nameplate rating. [3][5][7]

04

Photovoltaic array

Model not publicly disclosed

More than 1.2 kW of PV in the rebuilt hybrid system; module and inverter manufacturers were not disclosed. [7]

05

Battery storage

Model not publicly disclosed

Twenty-four 2 V cells forming a 48 V bank; make, model, chemistry, Ah capacity, and current replacement status were not disclosed. [7]

06

Energy-management system

SMART Hydro Power

SMART EMS coordinates hydro, solar, batteries, backup generation, and village distribution. [7]

07

Backup generator

Model not publicly disclosed

A backup generator is included in the later hybrid architecture; fuel, rating, manufacturer, and model were not published. [7]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Phase history

    The 2011 floating-turbine project and the hybrid system reported running from November 2014 are successive phases, not two simultaneously verified plants. [3][5][6][7]

  • Initial failure mechanism

    Project case material says unusually high/rising river water and debris damaged or disabled the original floating installation, requiring redesign and reinstallation. [5]

  • Hybrid architecture

    The rebuilt system combines continuous river energy where available with PV, a low-voltage battery bank, backup generation, centralized EMS, and a village distribution network. [7]

  • Community outcomes

    Project profiles describe household electricity, community services including dental equipment, and round-the-clock availability after the rebuild, but do not publish interval generation, uptime, or independently audited reliability data. [6][7]

  • Evidence gap

    Current hydro rating, actual PV capacity above the stated minimum, storage energy, diesel use, renewable fraction, tariff governance, and post-commissioning maintenance/replacement history remain unverified. [7][8]

Provenance

8 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
  3. [3]
    Successful First Installation in Latin America

    SMART Hydro Power · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
    SMART Hydro Power Customer Story

    Autodesk / SMART Hydro Power · Secondary research

  6. [6]
    Hybrid Rural Electrification System in Marisol, Peru

    World Access to Modern Energy (WAME) · Secondary research

  7. [7]
    Peru Rural Electrification

    SMART Hydro Power · Primary source

  8. [8]
    Marisol Village Microgrid (Archived Project Record)

    Microgrid Projects / Internet Archive · Archived source

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