As we remember our friend, Martin Saning’o Kariongi, who passed away this week from coronavirus, we wanted to collect together some of the material that we, and others, have on the internet featuring Martin talking about his work.
Tag: stories
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Oct 06 2020
Rural Perceptions of Solar Power
Although our first solar installation in rural Tanzania has been having overwhelmingly positive reviews by the local community (powering the local water borehole, the first fridge in the local shop, and a small, efficient, electric milling-machine) we still have a hard time explaining the concept of solar power to some of our other target communities. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://e4sv.org/interview-vidya-sagar-devabhaktuni-skg-sangha/
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Oct 15 2017
Nico Tyabji, SunFunder – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Nico Tyabji, Director of Strategic Partnerships, SunFunder Location: US, East Africa “As a financial intermediary for the off-grid solar sector, we’ve grown alongside companies” Since it launched as a specialist debt financier for the off-grid solar sector in 2012, SunFunder has improved energy access for 2.9 million people. Co-founders Ryan Levinson and Audrey Desiderato …
Permanent link to this article: https://e4sv.org/interview-nico-tyabji-sunfunder/
Permanent link to this article: https://e4sv.org/interview-suleiman-mzungu-suja/
Oct 15 2017
Carlo Figa Talamanca, Sustainable Green Fuel Enterprise
[:en] Carlo Figa Talamanca, Chief Executive, Sustainable Green Fuel Enterprise Location: Phnomh Penh, Cambodia “We compete on industrialising the clean charcoal process” The other day, there was a fistfight on the factory floor. More worryingly, an employee’s child did not turn up at school. This is directly the responsibility of Sustainable Green Fuel Enterprise …
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Oct 15 2017
David Achi, AD Solar Entreprise – minigrid entrepreneur
David Achi, Director, AD Solar Entreprise Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast “Ivorians can now access life” Running a business in Ivory Coast is not easy, much less a solar company. David Achi trained over 1,000 technicians via a company he created in Reims – “the capital of champagne!” – in 2010. Achi also taught engineering at …
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Oct 15 2017
Shyam Patra, Naturetech Infrastructure – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Shyam Patra, Founder and Director at Naturetech Infrastructure “We are ensuring that electricity is available and all the basic services are available. We don’t provide the electricity and then wait for the rest to happen.” The first time Shyam Patra visited India’s rural north, he was working for a traditional energy company and …
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Oct 15 2017
Segun Adaju, Consistent Energy Limited – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Segun Adaju, CEO at Consistent Energy Limited “I think Nigeria has the biggest market for this kind of business in all of Sub-Saharan Africa.” To get a sense of Nigeria’s problems in the energy sector, it helps to know that more 60 million people in the country have their own gas-powered generators. In …
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Oct 14 2017
Mawuli Tse, Solar Light Africa – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Mawuli Tse, Director, Solar Light Africa Location: Accra, Ghana “Good technology migrates by itself” In the early nineties, Mawuli Tse spent time in Cape Verde, as part of a group working to install 5,000 photovoltaic systems in homes on the archipelago. “They were so progressive,” he says. “My thought was, if Cape Verde was …
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Oct 14 2017
Richard Fahey, Liberian Energy Network (LEN) – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Richard Fahey, CEO, Liberian Energy Network (LEN) Location: Liberia “We give Liberians, be they fishermen or child soldiers, a powerful tool to do their job better” When a shipment of solar lights disappeared at the port of Hamburg en route from China, only to turn up three months later, every single battery dead. It …
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Oct 14 2017
Jeroen Verschelling, Kamworks – solar home system entrepreneur
[:en] Jeroen Verschelling, Chairman and Co-founder, Kamworks Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia “It’s hard to go faster than the market” Jeroen Verschelling first designed his zero-energy home when he was a consultant for Ecofys, taking notes in the back of a conference room with experts on how to build homes in the tropics. Verschelling spent three …
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Oct 14 2017
Vladimir Delagneau Barquero, Tecnosol – solar entrepreneur
[:en] Vladimir Delagneau Barquero, President and Managing Director, Tecnosol Location: Managua, Nicaragua “20 years ago, some Nicaraguans thought renewable energy was the work of the devil” When Vladimir Delagneau Barquero explains why he launched Tecnosol he brings the story back to an experience he had over a decade in the mid-eighties, during his military service …
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