When you switch on a light- you have power! Quite literally. The power to connect, to use modern technology, listen to music, run advance cooking appliances. But the same power also ends itself to some very basic needs like plain and simple light – to read, study, cook. More than half a billion in Africa lack grid power and spend more on fuel than most developed nations in terms of salary percentages. The issue with renewables: upfront costs that the poor cannot afford and Eight19 is solving this problem through an innovative pay-as-you-go solar.
Eight minutes and nineteen seconds is how much time it takes for sunlight to reach the earth. This is the explanation for the unusual name behind Eight19- a consumer electronics company behind products like IndiGo. IndiGo is an affordable solar lighting and battery charging system that brings low-cost energy to off-grid communities.
This pay-as-you-go model makes it a uniquely affordable way to bring power for low-energy (LED) lighting and battery charging to homes, schools and workplaces in emerging markets.
Why Pay-As-You-Go Solar is Relevant in Developing markets?
Renewable energy installations come with an upfront cost that poor communities in Africa and Asia cannot afford. People spend the little that they earn immediately with no real savings, throwing them into a vicious circle of using dirty fuels like kerosene that are costly, inefficient and hazardous to health. Eight19 breaks these barriers to clean energy via this simple solar battery pack that customers can pay as they use. Eight-19′s CEO Simon Bransfield Garth explains,
Source:http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/cheap-pay-as-you-go-solar-developing-countries-awesome/
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