By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Wed, 2009-02-25 11:26
On Lake Victoria in Kenya OSRAM has launched a unique project for producing light away from a permanent power supply. At a specially constructed solar station (OSRAM Energy Hub) the local people can recharge batteries for energy-saving lamps, luminaires and other electrical appliances, such as mobile phones, at low cost and without damaging the environment. Off Grid solutions are the way forward for developing and emerging countries that cannot afford to set up a permanent power supply network. The market is huge. 1.6 billion people throughout the world live without electricity.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Tue, 2008-03-11 22:03
LEAP was originally created in 1980 for the Beijer Institute's Kenya Fuelwood Project, to provide a flexible tool for long-range integrated energy planning. The early 1990s saw a broadening of LEAP's user-base. In 1991, the first major LEAP-based study in an OECD country was conducted by Tellus Institute entitlesd "America's Energy Choices: an analysis of the potential for energy efficiency and renewables in the USA". In 1992, the first global energy study using LEAP was published by SEI, "Towards a Fossil Free Energy Future" (a report to Greenpeace).
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Thu, 2007-04-12 07:00
Don't we all look more closely the origins of goods, especially food, in our shops nowadays and think about global warming? This healthy reaction may, however, not be enough to make the right decisions. One stunning example is that flowers grown in Africa and transported by air to our shops may have a smaller carbon footprint than those grown around the corner in heated greenhouses!
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Thu, 2006-10-12 05:08
The International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, has launched the project "Lighting the Bottom of the Pyramid" aimed at the replacement of kerosene lighting with solar-powered LED units in Ghana and Kenya. The project cuts into a 40 BUSD-market that the 1.6 Billion people who does not have access to electricity spend on kerosene every year.
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