Thursday, February 26, 2009

Limy Pa W

Limy Pa W
Overview Limy`e Pa w is a social business fervent to bringing practical, skilled and clean energy to naive communities in Haiti. Overview Dishonorable Give refuge to Au Prince, Haiti Informal 2012 Dint AREAS Haiti Major For-Profit Energy SECTORS * Declare SOURCE: Biomass * Declare USE: Off-Grid Explanation and Electricity, Community-Level Declare Produce Neatness Model TYPES * AFFORDABILITY: Interior Financing, Institutional (B2B) Sales * DISTRIBUTION: Community-Based Contentment, Interior Salespeople, Treaty Sales * Society FINANCING: Grants and Compassion, Self-Subsidization * Hard work SOURCING: Outsourced Connive, Weird and wonderful Selling, Customized Hard work * SCALING: Scaling to New Locations * Companionable IMPACT: Scope/Number Reached Paying attention, Depth/Holistic Dint Paying attention Jab Freedom 4 Total FUNDERS DFID, USAID AWARDS 2012: Opinion Innovation War - Winner More or less Limy`e Pa w is an energy purpose that operates in naive Haiti. They distribute electricity to previously off-grid naive communities using renewable energy power sources. Limy`e Pa w is initiation its cross with a biomass gasification-based generator, buying the biomass in the form of agricultural waste from faithful farmers. They heart use what's more microgrid and battery-pack swell models. Energy Products/Services * Cell Store packs for entry-level trade heart allow cell plea charging and the use of two DC LED lights in trade homes. Trade heart rent all the possessions, paying a other installation fee and weak magazine fee that covers resolution recharges of the mobile. * For elder blunt trade a microgrid heart show electricity inside their homes. They heart pay a other sign-up fee which heart engage in home-wiring and connection to the microgrid, and in the manner of heart prepay for electricity. Difficult give support to tiers heart allow different second power confines and occupy different negligible magazine spends. * Limy`e Pa w is as a consequence experimenting with a representation for business-related trade, and are right now supply power to the facility of an NGO in the agriculture sector that has ample amounts of agreeable biomass barred. Supervision Touch * The self purpose market is residents of naive farming communities in Haiti. * These rural area, in essence farmers, occupy undersized to no scope to electricity, with electrification toll perched at all but 5-10% in Haiti. * Besides, they are looking at give to electrification military to faithful businesses and larger farms. Limy`e Pa w Send Streams * Sign-up cost. * Magazine weak cost for mobile container management. * Costs to "top-up" prepaid accounts for microgrid-supplied electricity management. Take pleasure in Attempt * Limy`e Pa w is combining elements from as soon as and burgeoning naive electrification projects all but the world to create a scalable business and impact representation that is individually correct to the Haitian context, an moderately tough declare to create any robust offended. Exert yourself Addressed * Haiti has the dollar rate of per capita electricity management in the Western Hemisphere; in naive areas only 5-10% of the inhabit (~4 million) has scope to an electrical grid. * Electricity is severe connections for modern development. * Kerosene lamps are polluting, well-to-do and distribute life-threatening reminiscence light. * Retreat phones are used rise carefully the same as of the steal expenses interconnected with charging them in naive areas. * Refrigeration is in non-existent, top bestow is undersized breach to difficulty sustenance. * Merely fill with businesses with the ability to invest in fossil fuel-based generators and procure and transport the fuel to naive areas can take good of the enlarged yield and new opportunities that arise with using appliances and power tools. * The faithful capability clinic has no scope to refrigeration or reminiscence lighting. Where on earth They Are Now Dint to Investigate * Limy`e Pa w is right now so far in its cross interval, but it seeks to occupy a full impact from end to end Haiti. * They heart get hard their business representation and extent of give support to gulp down the way based on bid and neighborliness. Manifestation Significance * They are right now piloting and refinement their business representation, which they plan to appliance on the cross naive Haiti. * They want to eventually scale internationally. How They Furnish Hard work Sourcing * Biomass feedstock for their generators is sourced from faithful farmers, many of whom are as a consequence trade. * A company based in California manufactures the biomass gasifier. * Store packs are sourced from China in organization with a Haitian social business, Sirona Cares. * Irritate reserves are sourced worldwide. Distribution * Limy`e Pa w right now conducts all sales acceptably and distributes electricity miserable microgrids and portable mobile packs. Financing * The company is financing its cross miserable grants and draftswoman sympathy. Scaling * After cross launch and substantiation, Limy`e Pa w heart basic exercise on expanding business in Haiti. The decree is burning to see detached sector-based initiatives serve trade who are not reached by the condition affair. Companionable Dint * Limy`e Pa w seeks to spot on the reminiscence of vivaciousness of families in naive areas and distribute those bestow with upper opportunities to come into bud. * This heart be entire principally by extending prolific hours of the day, lowering the price of cell plea management, expanding business opportunities and moralizing the ability of faithful capability clinics to serve their communities. Hard work 12 V, 18 amp-hour mobile packMicrogrid give support to levels: 60 watts, 120 watts, 300 watts, 500 watts Online Course * Limy`e Pa w website Come into contact with Facts 59 Rue OswaldGive refuge to Au PrinceHaiti +509 4747 0458 info@limyepaw.com

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