LED and solar energy integration open up new markets

AllIndiaWomen's Conference, India’s largest women’s group, is a community-based, community-based solar charging station that recharges portable LED lights during the day. When people come home from work, they rent lights and deliver home for several days. Night lighting.

Portable LED charging lamps benefit the people. Since the cost of solar panels construction is still a threshold, there is an opportunity to build shared charging stations through joint cooperatives or community fund-raising methods; letting people rent lanterns is equivalent to using electricity. Cheap "retail" to those who need it, so that more people can get it. Community women are trained as equipment maintenance technicians to plan to earn salaries.

Not only the All India Women's Federation, but also Barefoot College, and many independent cooperatives are also promoting similar things. The reason why solar lighting is popularized in India is that TERI, a well-known environmental think tank in India, has long promoted the “Lighting One Million People” program and has successfully attracted foreign contributions from the UK government. Of course, the sharp drop in the price of solar panels and the emergence of LED lamps are the main reasons why everyone enjoys the light.

Integration with solar energy into a new darling On the other hand, the industry has invented a small solar module with LED lamps, specifically for sale in areas lacking lighting such as Africa. This group is the first generation of SunKingPro products. Although the photovoltaic panel is small, it can provide 20 hours of lighting after full charge, and the second generation of products can reach 36 hours of lighting.

Incidentally, this group of devices can also supply mobile phone charging. In recent years, the mobile phone penetration rate in Africa is rapidly increasing. People using mobile phones to surf the Internet can communicate with the world and use less electricity than computers.

Thailand's SunSawang social enterprise finds a special business model. As early as 2004, the Thai government helped more than 200,000 suburban homes without electricity to install solar systems. However, there was no maintenance plan so that as many as 90% of the equipment could no longer be used. Residents were forced to go back to using candles and oil lamps.

At the beginning of SunSawang's business, it was mainly to repair the solar energy equipment abandoned by the government. They tried to train the community's solar power technicians, and then gradually developed different service projects, such as one-year maintenance of existing equipment, rental of solar energy. LED lights, or new home solar installations to support small basic appliances.

The Philippines's ALiterofLight project, which you may have seen on the Internet, added bleach to water, installed it on a tin roof, and introduced daylight into the darkened interior. Being a "SolarBottle", it has brought great benefits to the construction-intensive slum community and has helped hundreds of thousands of families around the world.

Since 2013, the project team has begun to promote the solar-powered special solar bottle, which is equipped with LED lights. It is installed on the roof together. Natural light is introduced during the day and artificial lighting is available for hours at night.

The light emitted by solar LED lamps may seem weak in our eyes, but it inspires the community to develop independent energy, create jobs and business opportunities in the green collar, and allow millions or tens of millions of people to read at night. Or weaving, hand-crafting, and then subsidizing the home, and then step by step closer to the good life they are pleading for.