Abstract
Rural Electrification Program is a policy of Indonesian government on the electricity sector for the expansion of electricity access in rural areas. Least resources is one of the major causes which has left many villages in Indonesia without electricity. One solution to these problems is renewable energy resources, and use of these energy resources offer tremendous opportunity to electrify rural areas, including hydro-power. This article describes the equipment and operating principle of a model of hydro electric power generation developed in laboratory of fluid mechanics at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Lampung, and also presents the testing results obtained in small irrigation canal of Way Tebu in Banjar Agung Udik Village, Pugung District, Tanggamus County, Lampung Province.
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