This month sees the 11-month anniversary of our Sidonge Pilot project – one that has been very rewarding and full of interesting lessons learned. We set out early 2011 to identify one or more sites in Eastern Africa for deployment of our sustainable development model, looking to validate three key points in proving our solution: […]
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23
Nov
Our pilot project in Sidonge has raised a large amount of interest and we are being inundated with requests for career opportunities, “install in our village” and commercial enterprises wanting a KUDURA to power their business! This week we featured in the Kenyan newspaper “Standard” in the technology section. I’ve added a PDF here for your […]
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14
Sep
This video describes our rural village energy installation site at Sidonge “A” in western Kenya. Work was conducted during early september 2011 with great progress made. The community Self Help Group has started digging the pit-latrines for guests and soon will be building the kiosk where we intend to offer phone and battery charging services […]
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09
Sep
Hannington, Nya and I set out last week to take delivery of our Rural Village Energy units (RVE) from Kenyan customs and kick off the installation in Sidonge but the week started badly. Our shipment was delayed yet again due to port congestion in Mombassa and still we had not received VAT and Duty Exemption from the […]
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23
Aug
In november of 2010, when I visited Sidonge “A” for the first time, the community was being evaluated as a potential pilot site. Just nine months later, we have helped them form a community utility service self help group that will run a business, generate electricity, biogas and potable water – they will sell these […]
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