Feb102010
Sunlabob Renewable Energies, Laos, solar PV rural villages – Ashden Award winner
Posted under News by Webmaster at 12:59 on Feb 10 2010
This video can be downloaded here: www.ashdenawards.org Sunlabob won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards.blogspot.com Sunlabob Renewable Energies Ltd is a solar PV business based in the capital of Laos that has succeeded in developing an innovative and commercially viable business model providing high-quality solar PV systems to the rural poor at a price they can afford. High up-front costs often prevent people from opting for solar energy. Sunlabob has addressed this by providing a service which rents out solar PV at prices that start lower than the cost of kerosene. This commercial approach works because Sunlabob uses high-quality components to ensure reliability and places a strong emphasis on customer support and training local entrepreneurs to maintain the systems. To date 1870 solar systems, including 20 larger ones for community use, and 500 solar lanterns are rented to families in 73 villages providing electricity for lighting, entertainment and other uses such as refrigeration for vaccines. The potential for growth is huge; Sunlabob is already installing systems at a rate of 500 a year, and new investment this year will allow it to scale up to 2500 systems, and 5000 after that.
1 siasaboraon 10 Feb 2010 at 13:00
Hi Susistar
I am from Kenya, bordering Ethiopia in the south.
It’s getting worse everyday as the drought dries up rivers and power rationing is bad for the economy.
2 Susistar1on 10 Feb 2010 at 13:21
Hi Siasabora,
thanks for your comment-
But what do you mean you will not hesitate to introduce drought resistance crop…Are you also an scientist?
What is your country?
Yes, if the dams are dry and they rationing electricity its really horrible- I have seen it Ethiopia…
Greetings
Sue
3 siasaboraon 10 Feb 2010 at 13:56
Thanks
4 siasaboraon 10 Feb 2010 at 14:21
Thanks for your time!
Where I come from they will die of hunger anyway…I will not hesitate to introduce drought resistance crop, yu have suggestions? Currently the dams have run dry and they’re rationing Hydro Electricity. It’s bad.
5 Susistar1on 10 Feb 2010 at 14:59
Dear Siasabora-
I saw your comment to the solar electricity video and I agree with you totally esp. for Africa! But in this case here…it is difficult-
I am an agricultural scientist but if you seed these manipulated and drought resitent seeds you will never know what will be the outcomes- the effects on human beings and the nature-
6 Susistar1on 10 Feb 2010 at 15:11
The best are always the old seeds which are indigenous (from the region) cause they are much more resistent than the new in the laboratory created seeds-
Greeting from
Sue;))))
7 siasaboraon 10 Feb 2010 at 16:09
a noble project….Africa should replicate this wisdom too. Grid electricity in Kenya is unreliable and installation maintainece costs beyond available means.
8 AshdenAwardson 10 Feb 2010 at 16:27
Check the case study PDF file on the Ashden Awards website, it includes details on cost.
9 KonLaoPaksanon 10 Feb 2010 at 17:03
What is a cost for one system?