Cambridge clean-tech company, Eight19, has launched IndiGo, a revolutionary pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world. By combining solar and mobile phone technology, the IndiGo solar electricity system is inexpensive to buy and allows users to light their homes and charge mobile phones as a service, paid for using scratchcards. IndiGo consists of a low-cost solar panel, a battery unit with inbuilt mobile phone charger and a high efficiency LED lamp. Users put credit on their IndiGo device using a scratchcard, which is validated over SMS using a standard mobile phone
Customer trials are now underway in Kenya and will be extended to Zambia, Malawi and the Indian sub-continent over the next 3 months. The commercial roll-out of IndiGo will start early next year.
Steve Andrews, CEO of the Solar Aid charity said: “Solar energy offers huge economic, health and social benefits to the world’s poorest people; for lighting and mobile phone charging. Eight19’s technology opens up these benefits to many more people. This is a major breakthrough.”
“We are very encouraged by this new way of delivering energy to off-grid applications in emerging markets” said Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Eight19. ‘Indigo enables a new generation of solar power products that are affordable, providing customers with access, often for the first time, to clean low cost energy that eliminates the health risks and carbon emissions of kerosene.”
For further information, please visit www.eight19.com or contact Bethan Halls at Taylor Keogh.
Customer trials are now underway in Kenya and will be extended to Zambia, Malawi and the Indian sub-continent over the next 3 months. The commercial roll-out of IndiGo will start early next year.
Steve Andrews, CEO of the Solar Aid charity said: “Solar energy offers huge economic, health and social benefits to the world’s poorest people; for lighting and mobile phone charging. Eight19’s technology opens up these benefits to many more people. This is a major breakthrough.”
“We are very encouraged by this new way of delivering energy to off-grid applications in emerging markets” said Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Eight19. ‘Indigo enables a new generation of solar power products that are affordable, providing customers with access, often for the first time, to clean low cost energy that eliminates the health risks and carbon emissions of kerosene.”
For further information, please visit www.eight19.com or contact Bethan Halls at Taylor Keogh.
