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This article was originally published at AmericanInno. Chicago clean-energy startup Sigora International is the latest local company is get backed by the Clean Energy Trust, a Chicago-based organization that invests in clean-tech companies throughout the Midwest. The CET invested $200,000 into Sigora at the end of May at its Co-Invest Cleantech event. Sigora, which…
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Originally published on ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE – On the wall of the Sigora Haiti field operations center in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti, the company’s 50+ local employees have painted the new rallying cry of the 21st century energy sector, “Moun Yo Swaf Kouran,” which means “the people are thirsty for power”…
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Originally published on FORBES – There have been many aid programs designed to bring electricity to off-grid communities in Haiti, but once funding for a project runs out, then what? Without ongoing capital for maintenance and repairs, the infrastructure wears out and communities are left where they started. One potential solution…
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Originally published on FAST COMPANY – A year ago, no one living in Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti, had electricity. By the spring of 2016, the town had a brand new grid, and it will soon run completely on solar and wind energy. “In six months, we built from scratch the entire electrical…
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Originally published on GREENBIZ More electricity is coming to the rural Global South, bit by bit, as renewable projects light up remote villages and hospitals, individual huts and large water treatment plants. There are 1.2 billion people estimated not long ago to live without electricity. But electrification isn’t arriving in these…