April 16, 2012, Cambridge UK: Eight19 has been selected as a finalist in the categories “Small Business of the Year” and “Renewable Energy Project of the Year” of the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards, for its work on the IndiGo pay-as-you-go solar system which provides clean and affordable electricity to off-grid rural communities.
Eight19’s technology has fulfilled the requirements of both awards by its commitment to the overarching judging criteria of “innovation...
March 20, 2012
Eight19 is delighted to have been named "CleanTech Company of the Year" at the BusinessWeekly Awards last night at a ceremony at Queens' College, Cambridge. The Award is presented to the "CleanTech business that has most most commercial progress in the last 12 months."
Mark Pendlington of Anglian Water, who presented the Award, said: “Eight19 has developed technology that allows solar power to be sold as a service,...
March 12, 2012
March 12 2012, Cambridge UK: Eight19 received the Climate Week Award 2012 for “Best Initiative for a Small or Medium-Sized Business” at a prestigious ceremony at Lancaster House, London. The event marked the launch of Climate Week; Britain’s biggest climate change campaign.
Eight19 received the Award for the development of its Indigo pay-as-you-go solar technology...
March 12, 2012
Eight19 is thrilled to have been awarded the Climate Week Award for "Best Initiative by a Small or Medium-Sized Business". Read our Media Release.
2 March 2012
Eight19's CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio4's Today Programme.
Listen again here...
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
