• By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) - 21 February 2012, 17:48
  • In News, Thin Film, OPV/DSSC, Power Generation, Project Focus

Eight19 now operating pay-as-you-go off-grid PV system in four countries

  •   The plan is to deploy 1000 units in the first half of 2012 in South Sudan and a total of 3,000 units of its small flexible OPV modules in Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.
    The plan is to deploy 1000 units in the first half of 2012 in South Sudan and a total of 3,000 units of its small flexible OPV modules in Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.

Through collaboration with international charitable organization WorldVenture, South Sudan is now the fourth country in which Eight19's pay-as-you-go off-grid PV system is in operation.The plan is to deploy 1000 units in the first half of 2012 in South Sudan and a total of 3,000 units of its small flexible OPV modules in Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.

Thomas Bell, South Sudan director of projects at WorldVenture said: “There is a pressing need for off-grid power in South Sudan, where sometimes the poorest even burn grass despite the smoke health hazard and fire risk; they just are so desperate for an affordable way to have light at night. Eight19’s pay-as-you-go solar is a grass-root solution, which is particularly important in South Sudan, where there is a complete lack of infrastructure.”

The IndiGo units contain a battery, a solar panel, lights and a phone charging device.

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