Solar photovoltaic & energy efficient municipal street lighting

The energy sector in Cameroon like in Nigeria and other African countries faces new and ongoing challenges with respect to access to and reliability of electricity supply, particularly in rural areas. With increasing economic growth averaging 4.5% annually over the last few years, the sector is facing rapid increase in demand while the generating capacity has not been renewed for over 20 years. Subsequently, consumers and industries have suffered heavily from daily load-shedding over the past years. The industrial and services output are especially hit by forced outages and system breakdowns, resulting in significant economic loss to the nation. Rising energy demand therefore calls for major financial investment in sustainable energy production via private sector to enable them deliver affordable energy products and services based on clean and renewable technologies.

Solar Photovoltaic & Energy efficiency municipal street lighting can help address the challenge of increasing access to modern energy services, reduce the need for capital-intensive supply investments as well as mitigating climate change. Solar Photovoltaic and Efficient lighting are a promising sector for improving the adequacy and reliability of power systems and reducing emissions in developing countries.

Street lighting is a big preoccupation for most public authorities in the developing world because of its strategic importance to the economy and subsequently to social stability.

The heavy investments noted of this sector are a great limiting force since the weak economies of these developing nations can not bear the burden of these investments. Consequently, a very small proportion of the population has access to electricity and mostly those in the urban communities or cities. It becomes imperative for governments to use the existing resources more efficiently. In this way, savings made by not anticipating new plants may be used to develop alternative energy solutions for the majority of the population that is cut off from the rest, living in remote rural areas. If this is not done, the cities will be filled with people moving in from the rural areas and one can imagine the rest of the story: Slumps, violence, vandalism, robbery etc...

According to experts, over 30% of all energy used by cities is used in street lighting. Inefficient lighting wastes huge financial resources each year, increases the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Recent technologies can help cut public lighting costs by 30% to 60% while enhancing lighting quality and reducing environmental impacts.

Using less energy saves money, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Many of these win-win situations are already exploited, but there is much more to be done. The GEF (Global Environment Facility) promotes Solar photovoltaic & energy efficiency by removing barriers to the large-scale application, implementation, and dissemination of cost-effective, Solar Photovoltaic energy-efficient technologies and practices. Such barriers lie in the lack of conducive policies, inadequate information and awareness, and insufficient access to financing. GEF supports market transformation of energy-efficiency appliances and widespread adoption of energy-efficient technologies in industry and building sectors. This is an opportunity for municipalities to explore in order to obtain subsidies for the acquisition of Solar Photovoltaic and/or energy efficient (green) streetlights.

It is against this background and African government's growing desire for private initiative to help enhance this sector, that SE-Solar Co. was founded with the view to embark on providing practical and lasting solutions to the African nation's energy deficit through its state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic & municipal energy efficient street lighting technologies highly conceptualized and proven with its foreign partners.

Sustainable Energies & Solar Company Ltd. (SE-Solar Co.Ltd.) is a renewable energy system integrator specialized in the deployment of Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal & Wind energy technologies in Cameroon & Sub-Saharan Africa. SE-Solar Co. also carries out demand-side energy management projects such as energy-efficient street lighting and deploys Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) to rural communities.

SE-Solar Co. is the general distributor of Everexceed's (ww.everexceed.com) range of solar & power conditioning products in Africa.

SE-Solar Co. is seeking partnership with individuals, businesses and municipalities in all African countries to deploy its eco-technologies based on solar Photovoltaic & energy efficient street lighting as well as its range of environmentally friendly technologies such as solar assisted air conditioning, solar powered computers, etc. Opportunities to represent our range of products/technologies in local market are also available.

Contact Address:

SE-Solar Co. Ltd.
Entree Ad Lucem, Ancienne Route Bonaberi
BP 10178 - Douala
Rep. of Cameroon
T/F: +237 33 39 46 44/45
Cell: +237 77 10 89 42
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