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Solar systems for your home for $3.80 per month



Well, as good as this news is, unfortunately you have to live in Laos to be able to take advantage of the offer. In Laos, fewer than half the entire population has access to the grid and therefore sources of electricity for lighting, heating, or anything else is highly prized. Families typically use kerosene for their lighting needs but it leads to poor air pollution inside the home and community, and poses a fire hazard. The average household will spend between $4.00-6.60 each month on kerosene, but Sunlabob, a Laotian provider of solar thermal and photovoltaics can provide solar lighting systems for only $3.80 per month. Times are certainly changing when solar panels in 3rd world countries are cheaper than fossil fuels!


The program, which has over 1,800 systems installed in 73 villages, works in a unique and successful way. Instead of purchasing the systems themselves, the residents, who are of low income homes, rent them per month, and pay a rate in relation to the size and configuration of their particular system. Since they could never afford to purchase a system, Sunlabob’s Rural Energy program makes it possible for them to enjoy solar power, starting at under $4 a month. Sunlabob takes care of all the financing so the consumer just sees a simple money-saving fee.


The 2001 startup also recently won the Sasakawa Prize, an annual award to an individual or institution making a significant contribution to the protection and management of the environment, for their initiative from the Environment Programme (UNEP) and landed themselves $100,000. They are currently expanding their idea into neighboring Cambodia and Indonesia and are also looking at partnerships in Africa and Latin America.



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Solar systems for your home for $3.80 per month



Well, as good as this news is, unfortunately you have to live in Laos to be able to take advantage of the offer. In Laos, fewer than half the entire population has access to the grid and therefore sources of electricity for lighting, heating, or anything else is highly prized. Families typically use kerosene for their lighting needs but it leads to poor air pollution inside the home and community, and poses a fire hazard. The average household will spend between $4.00-6.60 each month on kerosene, but Sunlabob, a Laotian provider of solar thermal and photovoltaics can provide solar lighting systems for only $3.80 per month. Times are certainly changing when solar panels in 3rd world countries are cheaper than fossil fuels!


The program, which has over 1,800 systems installed in 73 villages, works in a unique and successful way. Instead of purchasing the systems themselves, the residents, who are of low income homes, rent them per month, and pay a rate in relation to the size and configuration of their particular system. Since they could never afford to purchase a system, Sunlabob’s Rural Energy program makes it possible for them to enjoy solar power, starting at under $4 a month. Sunlabob takes care of all the financing so the consumer just sees a simple money-saving fee.


The 2001 startup also recently won the Sasakawa Prize, an annual award to an individual or institution making a significant contribution to the protection and management of the environment, for their initiative from the Environment Programme (UNEP) and landed themselves $100,000. They are currently expanding their idea into neighboring Cambodia and Indonesia and are also looking at partnerships in Africa and Latin America.

 


So this is an idea originated in/from Laos PDR? It is not conceieved by an outsider but implement in Laos PDR?

 



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why dont you click on the link to Sunlabob website if you want to know the background? its just a common sense, right??????? do some research before asking (not just asking).

Anyway, here is from the link.

What is Sunlabob?

SUNLABOB provides affordable and reliable energy solutions with renewable energy sources.

SUNLABOB is …
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  • A Lao commercial company, licensed since 2001, which operates as a profitable, full-service energy-provider selling hardware and providing commercially viable energy services for remote areas where the public electricity grid does not yet reach.
    Our headquarters and base are in Vientiane, the capital of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
  • A hardware company. See our hardware options here.
  • An energy service company. See our concepts here.
  • A training company. SUNLABOB trains small rural entrepreneurs so they can install and service our technologies and run their business as our franchise. This ensures fast and reliable follow-up services.
  • A rental company. SUNLABOB rents out systems at affordable rates to off-grid areas. See our presentation here.
  • A brand for equipment uniquely suited for longterm use in remote areas and with rental operations.


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small panels like this cannot provide a lot of electricity...just a few for basic use.

Anyway, that's great to see this kind of company emerging in Laos.
Solar energy is for sure the future of Laos: Laos have lot of sun, and it's very ecological.

The main problem with solar panel is the initial cost of the panels. Until now, it was too high to be really interesting. But some companies just started to produce third generation of solar panels a few month ago: as effective as former generation, but much much less expensive to produce!

For sure, when we will be able to find this kind of solar panels everywhere, it will be a great deal: everyone will be able to buy some solar panels and put them on the roof of their house.

What about network connection for solar panels in Laos? can you connect to the electricity network and sell the electricity you produce to the electricity company, as we do in France?

-- Edited by paris_vientiane at 12:14, 2008-06-10

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