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21 February 2012
Helps light up world’s youngest country
February 21 2012, Cambridge UK: Eight19, which launched its IndiGo pay-as-you-go personal solar electricity system for off-grid communities in Kenya in September 2011, is moving forward with its plans for expansion and has begun deploying its IndiGo system in South Sudan. Eight19 has partnered with WorldVenture, an international charitable organisation, to deploy the systems in rural...
15 February 2012
Eight19's Simon Bransfield-Garth appeared on the Business Daily program of the BBC World Service today to speak about IndiGo pay-as-you-go solar and Eight19's vision of the "un-grid" future of electricity in emerging markets.
The show's presenter Justin Rowlatt comments that if the system is successful then presumably just like mobile phones, there will be no need to install the new grids as this will work so well.
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Eight19 win the Rushlight Solar Award
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2 February 2012
Eight19’s CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth will be speaking at the Oxford Climate Forum 2012 this Saturday in a session called “How can the developing world take the lead?”. Simon will give an insight into Eight19's IndiGo projects in East Africa, the concept of 'pay-as-you-go solar', and the potential for the developing world to leapfrog fossil fuels and...
31 January 2012
Finance to accelerate product development and market roll-out
Cambridge UK: January 31st 2012: Eight19, the Cambridge UK based clean-tech developer of printed plastic solar cells and the IndiGo pay-as-you-go solar power technology for emerging markets, has announced the launch of a £5M “Series B” funding round. The funding will be used for the further development of the company’s low cost printed plastic solar...
24 January 2012
The Economist have today reported on Eight19's "novel" pay-as-you-go solar system IndiGo. The article called "Starting from Scratch", refers to the 'Energy Escalator' approach to a steady and affordable increase in energy supply by the user.
The article says "if the idea works, solar power will have a whole, new set of customers and the days of the paraffin lamp may be numbered".
Read the full article in The Economist...
Summit Highlights
The opening speech to launch the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, really hit a chord with Eight19’s mission to bring affordable solar lighting to developing markets. UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon touchingly recalled how as a young boy in post-war Korea,
“A simple light bulb illuminated a whole new world of opportunity for me, enabling me to study day and night”
Eight19 aims...
18 January 2012
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi inspected Eight19's IndiGo pay-as-you-go solar system at WFES 2012.
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