Newbie starting up in The Gambia, West Africa and needing help!

margaret,

use this link to do a loads calculation.  with this info you can size a system with the off grid calculator on the "how-to" section of the website.

http://shop.altenergystore.com/Calculators/OffGridCalculator.html#

that is the loads list above

check out the calculator on how much solar you need based on your loads.  you can also post them and how many hours you use each per day, and i can help you.

good luck

- james Alt-E staff

we can figure watt-hours per day and add it to what the calculator comes up with for the other loads.  You can figure out instantaneous watts with a kill-a-watt meter, but fridges are difficult, because they have motors that turn on and off throughout the day.  We will take your yearly number and divide it out to a daily number, which you can add to your total Watt-hours per day.

339 kWh per year x 1000 = 339,000 Watt-hours per year
339,000 / 12 months = 28,250 Watt-hours per month
28,250 / 30 days per month =

942 Watt-hours per day. 

that is the amount of energy your fridge uses on average per day.  that is a pretty energy efficient normal fridge, but that amount of energy costs at least a few thousand to make and store with photovoltaics and batteries.  You would then add the remainder of your loads into the calculator, and figure out total Watt-hours per day.

let me know if you need anymore help

james - Alt-E staff