Friday, November 4, 2011

Solar Electricity - Solar Electricity for Rural Communities




Deng Ltd, an established engineering company in Accra, has developed a viable and sustainable business model for the provision of solar-home-systems to rural areas where access to grid electricity is limited. They won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007.



In the News:




PV-Tech

Tenesol powers up 26000 homes in Morocco
Global Solar Technology
Tenesol, the global solar power provider, is bringing power to more than 163000 people in Morocco for the first time. The company, in partnership with Morocco's National Electricity Office (ONE), installed rural electrification systems at more than ...
Tenesol to bring solar power to 26000 Morocco householdsNewNet
Tenesol teams up with Morocco's National Electricity Office to install PV ...PV-Tech

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Kent County, Maryland Selects Washington Gas Energy Services for a 1579 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The Kent County project affirms our commitment to bringing clean energy solutions to our local communities and brings our rapidly growing portfolio of owned, operated and committed solar power projects to more than 8000 kilowatts. ...

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BusinessDay

Villasol power: Improving rural lives through renewable energy
BusinessDay
The rural areas which are remote but also desirous of good things of life, such as electricity, are best suited for the solar energy. The government must endeavour therefore to at least make effort to improve the lives of Nigerian rural communities, ...




Schneider Electric's Solar Solution to Rural Communities
THISDAY Live
Over 600 million of these people, who do not have access to electricity reside in sub-Saharan Africa while in Nigeria, over 60 per cent of rural communities are not connected to the national grid. It is against this background that Schneider Electric ...




National Geographic

Nigeria's Solar Projects Yield Both Failure and Success
National Geographic
"Rural areas which are remote from the grid and/or have low consumption or low power purchase potential will not be attractive to private power investors," said Abubakar S. Sambo, director general of the Energy Commission of Nigeria. ...







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