Latin America & Caribbean / Critical infrastructure

Solar Desalination Microgrid

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoveragePartial public record
Named organizations1
System facts3
Sources reviewed2
Last researched2026-07-19

Solar Desalination Microgrid is catalogued as a critical infrastructure system in Latin America & Caribbean.

Research status
Operational
Historical classification
Commercial
Reported capacity
12 kW
Coordinates
18.42069, -64.63997
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Solar Desalination Microgrid?

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

Organization

Elemental Water Makers

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
12 [1]

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.

No controller or equipment model was found in the reviewed public sources. This is a disclosure gap, not evidence that the project lacks coordinated controls.

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • Storage

    The Elemental Water Makers desalination microgrid pumps water up a hill during solar hours with 100% solar PV energy and stores the potential energy in a tank. [1]

  • Generation

    Solar PV [1]

Provenance

2 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]
    Working With Nature to Reach 100% Renewable Energy with Elemental Water Makers

    microgridmedia.com · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20