Meet the Latest Chicago Startup to Get Backed by the Clean Energy Trust

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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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Sigora International Inc. Wins Backing from Leading Cleantech Seed Investor, Chicago’s Clean Energy Trust

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 24 May – Sigora International Inc. has raised USD $200,000 from the Clean Energy Trust 501vc Investment Program, which invests in high-potential cleantech startups based in the Midwest,  as part of a $2.5M Series A round. On Wednesday, May 23rd, at CET’s Co-Invest Cleantech event in Chicago, Vice President of…

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Reliability, Resiliency Key to Caribbean Rebuild

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This article was originally published in the April issue of POWER Magazine. As another hurricane season approaches, the lessons learned by energy companies that have repaired power infrastructure in Haiti, Puerto Rico, and other areas provide a path forward for reducing the impact of future major storms. The devastating hurricanes…

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PODCAST: Andy Bindea – The next step in our energy revolution

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Listen to the PODCAST here. Originally published on SOLAR PLAZA –  “What we are trying to achieve with our technology is to create the entire system (software & hardware) stack that will allow for the proliferation of small micro-utility companies, developed from the perspective of being able to operate that…

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ARTICLE: From Electrification to Empowerment: Building a Utility-Grade Micro-Utility from the Bottom Up

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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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PRESS RELEASE: Sigora Haiti awarded “Best Microgrid Project” at the 9th Annual Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum

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October 24, 2017: Sigora Haiti’s Môle-Saint-Nicolas microgrid, which provides 24/7 power to 5,000 people in a previously un-electrified region of northwest Haiti, was awarded “Best Microgrid Project” at the 9th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the largest annual gathering of the Caribbean renewable energy market that took place in Miami from the 18thto the…

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SOLAR MAGAZINE: Solar Energy Storage Resilience: On the Ground in Haiti

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Originally published on SOLAR MAGAZINE – Online, television, radio and print news services are awash with reports of Hurricane Harvey and Irma’s devastating effects in Texas, Florida and neighboring southeastern U.S. states, and justifiably so. Attaining record-setting proportions and sustained wind speeds, Hurricane Irma swept across the Caribbean’s Greater and…

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RENEWABLE ENERGY WORLD: Haitian Solar PV Weathers Hurricane Irma

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Originally published on RENEWABLE ENERGY WORLD –  With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding a concession from the government of Haiti to be sole power provider to some 200,000 in…

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