Yellow Door Energy’s Tania Jarjur Named MESIA Woman in Solar at WFES
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 19, 2022 — Tania Jarjur, General Counsel of Yellow Door Energy, has been named Woman in Solar of the Year by the Middle East Energy Industry Association (MESIA) at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Leading Saudi solar PV panel manufacturer, Desert Technologies (DT) announces it has signed an agreement with Essentra company to export Saudi-made solar panels to their projects in the United States.
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Second annual list recognizes 147 private companies that put purpose before profit
RP Construction Services, Inc. has been awarded the Gold Medal in the construction category as part of Inc.’s 2021 Best in Business List, Inc. magazine’s second annual recognition program celebrating companies making the biggest impact on their communities, their industries, the environment, or society as a whole.
Monterey, CALIF., December 7, 2021—RP Construction Services, Inc. has been named to the Inc. 2021 Best in Business List in the construction category. Inc.’s Best in Business Awards honor companies that have gone above and beyond to make a positive impact.
Namasté Solar and the community donate community solar subscriptions to 176 low-income families
Boulder, Colorado, United States – Namasté Solar announces that it has raised $43,900 through the Keep the Lights on Colorado campaign to make solar energy more accessible this winter to 176 Colorado families that are unable to keep up with utility payments.
Namasté Solar created Keep the Lights on Colorado in 2020 to honor its vision of engaging in and creating holistic wealth for the community. It’s an annual month-long campaign that raises money for Energy Outreach Colorado, a Denver-based not-for-profit, that helps families throughout Colorado afford their energy costs.
Namasté Solar brought businesses and individuals together to support the campaign with 16 corporate sponsors and 60 individual donors helping provide community solar subscriptions to low-income families.
The community solar subscriptions are addressing an immediate need by taking a cost burden away from families and giving them the freedom to invest in other wants or needs. In looking at the long-term impacts, lower-income communities are disproportionately affected by climate change and environmental hazards like pollution and CO2 emissions.
According to Energy Outreach Colorado:
By making renewable energy more accessible, Keep the Lights on Colorado provides energy bill relief for families all while offsetting 623,216 pounds of CO2 this year, the equivalent of 710,446 miles driven by one car.
Energy Outreach Colorado gives families access to community solar subscriptions* that provide long-term stability in the form of monthly bill credits, which will reduce their annual home energy costs by 37%.
Namasté Solar is appreciative of all the individuals and companies that contributed this year to helping 176 Colorado families access the necessity of a safe, warm home and recognizes these corporate sponsors:
Tess Richey, director of development at Energy Outreach Colorado said:
“The participants enrolled in Energy Outreach Colorado’s solar energy program are thrilled to see areduction in their home energy costs. By saving money each month, and by offsetting C02 emissions through a cleaner energy source, families can focus on having a healthy and secure future. Through the Keep the Lights on Colorado campaign, we can extend affordable, reliable, and efficient energy to even more households that are currently struggling to keep their home’s electricity on.”
Sam Mason, Namasté Solar co-owner and commercial design team manager said:
“A benefit of this campaign is putting choice in the hands of Colorado families struggling to afford home energy bills; only when someone’s immediate needs are met can choices be made that affect the long term. For example, if I’m struggling with basic necessities like utility bills I may not have the ability to prioritize reducing my environmental impact.”
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About Energy Outreach Colorado
Energy Outreach Colorado is a Denver-based not-for-profit helping families throughout Colorado who are struggling to afford their home energy bills. In addition to bill payment assistance and energy efficiency upgrades, Energy Outreach Colorado assists families through subscriptions to community solar gardens*. These subscriptions provide long-term stability in the form of monthly bill credits that reduce the burden of home energy costs and free up dollars for other basic needs for these families – all while utilizing the cost-saving and environmental benefits of clean solar energy.
For more information, please visit www.energyoutreach.org.
About Namasté Solar
Founded in 2005, Namasté Solar is an employee-owned Colorado Public Benefit Cooperative and Certified B Corporation that develops, designs, installs, and maintains solar electric systems for homeowners, commercial property owners, and utility-scale developers. Namasté Solar also provides
highly specialized solar engineering, design, consulting services, as well as maintenance and operations for solar projects across the United States. The company is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of clean renewable energy and to prove there’s a better way to do business. As a B Corp, Namasté Solar is part of a global movement using business as a force for good to solve social and environmental challenges. The company has installed more than 9,800 clean energy systems that produce over 137 megawatts combined.
For more information, please visit www.namastesolar.com.
* The subscriptions provided are not affiliated with projects built by or in benefit of Namasté Solar.
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Chelsea Thomas
Namasté Solar
Content Marketing Specialist
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Press release provided by Namasté Solar. Photo credit Namasté Solar.
China-based lithium batteries manufacturer Wisdom Industrial Power Co. Ltd. announces that its BSLBATT Lifepo4 48V batteries have successfully passed the compatibility testing with Victron Energy’s inverter and charger systems complying with BMS-Can specification.
ESS Inc. CEO Eric Dresselhuys is a founding member
ESS Tech, Inc. (NYSE:GWH) (“ESS” or “ESS Inc), a manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for utility-scale and commercial energy storage applications, announces its participation in the Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council launched at COP26.
Light at the end of the tunnel: The fight against COVID-19 on the African continent is an unprecedented opportunity to build sustainable infrastructure to save 750 million people from darkness.
Desert Technologies announces that it has taken part in the online panel discussion organized by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) within the activities of COP 26 held in the Scottish city of Glasgow in the UK on “Supplying Sustainable Energy to Healthcare Facilities in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Mr. Hussein Abdullah Mogaibel, Senior Expert in the Energy Sector, Economic and Social Structures at the Islamic Development Bank, moderated the panel. The attendees were Mr. Khaled Sharbatly, Partner and CIO of Desert Technologies Group, Luc Severi, the Program Manager for Powering Healthcare at Sustainable Energy for All, and Saleban Omar a Senior Advisor, Health, Energy and Climate Change at the United Nations Development Program.
The participants confirmed that most of the people who lack electricity globally are in sub-Sahara Africa. Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, attention shifted to this inequality and the difficulty of medicine storage in areas with electricity shortages.
They explained that electricity does not reach nearly 60% of healthcare centers in these countries; among those, only 34% of hospitals and 28% of health clinics have access to reliable sources of electricity. In addition, about 60% of refrigerators used in health clinics in African countries don’t have the reliable electricity needed to store vaccines and medicines safely.
It was also stressed the importance of concentrating the efforts of the international community to initiate the “Sustainable Energy for All” initiative launched by the UN, identify, operate, and maintain sustainable healthcare facilities by 2030, and work on finding renewable energy sources that are reliable and cost-efficient.
In his talk, Sharbatly stressed that fighting the Coronavirus in Africa over the coming years will be very difficult without the availability of electricity in health facilities.
“We must take advantage of the financial support and donations provided by the international community to African countries to fight the Corona Virus, which represents an unprecedented opportunity to build infrastructure in the field of renewable energy, especially solar energy, to contribute to illuminating the African continent and eliminating the phenomenon of darkness which affects more than 750 million people in the continent”, he said.
Sharbatly pointed out that investment opportunities in solar electricity generation in the medical field in sub-Saharan countries are promising for investors. There is excellent international charitable aid provided through the UN and international organizations to finance renewable energy projects. It is essential to use these donations alongside finance and equity capital and to fund projects instead of donating whole projects, which will make it more affordable to build electrical stations distributed in remote areas and sell electricity at the lowest prices. The donations could potentially be acting as subsidies toward the end-user, which would bring down the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) and create a sustainable business model for rural electrification.
Sharbatly also revealed:
“The way Africa is perceived is as if it is one large place, but in fact, it is many countries with different religions, languages and diverse cultures, tribes, and local communities. Each has its way of life and ways to do business and interact. Thus, having a single “Africa” strategy and going overnight and pumping investments will not work.”
In his closing statement, Sharbatly said:
“When it comes to healthcare and human life, there is no compromise. However, if you look at it from an investment perspective, the prices of medical services must be affordable and accessible to everyone to create a sustainable healthcare ecosystem. The more hospitals we have, the more accessible healthcare will be for the community. But, we cannot get there without affordable electricity and clean water. Hospitals with electrical disruptions are in over 50% of African countries, which is dangerous for people in the ER or Ventilators or operating rooms. So, we must focus on micro-girds, local networks, and storage solutions. And direct donations and investments in lighting the African continent to achieve the goals. Electricity is the foundation of the modern society, and today it is a basic human right and the basis of everything we do today.”
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About Desert Technologies
Desert Technologies (DT) is a global platform for sustainable development including investment development & management and engineering, procurement, and construction platform for large-scale renewable energy projects. It is committed to building a future of sustainable and environmentally responsible energy generation for Global Economic and population growth. DT’s approach is to combine public benefit and private investment, with the vision of achieving a renewable energy industry that is both social good and financially compelling. Its portfolio exceeds 210 million USD in projects, with an additional 1.4 billion USD in the pipeline. Desert Technologies is pushing ahead with PV manufacturing in KSA. The company plans to bring 1 GW of cell and module capacity online by the end of 2023, and to extend this to 3 GW by 2026.
For more information, visit https://desert-technologies.com
Media Contact
Jamal Abdulkhaliq
Global Arabia Communications Network
www.globalarabia.com
Press release provided by Global Arabia Communications Network. Photo credit: Desert Technologies (DT).
OMERS Infrastructure announced that it has signed an agreement with a fund managed by Ares Management Corporation to acquire 100% of Navisun LLC, an independent distributed generation solar power producer.
The Electrical Engineering Division at the Saudi Council of Engineers visits the Desert Technologies Factory in Jeddah.
The Electrical Engineering Division of the Saudi Council of Engineers, headed by Eng. Omar Al Shiekh, conducted a visit to Desert Technologies’ PV panel factory in Jeddah, affiliated with the Desert Technologies Group, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of renewable energy.
New short study by the Energy Watch Group (EWG) finds: Electricity would already be cheaper today with a full supply of 100% renewables
Berlin, Germany — In the coalition negotiations for the new German government, both ambitious climate protection and the reduction of electricity prices play a central role. The previous government still expects only 45% renewables in the electricity mix by 2025.
Solar+Storage Project at Albuquerque Public Schools will Provide Resiliency and Cost Savings
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 25 October 2021 – (Solar Business Hub) Albuquerque Public Schools announces the largest solar installation amongst all other Albuquerque Public Schools and the state’s most extensive battery system at Atrisco Heritage Academy High School. The clean energy systems contain 2,208 Tier-1 panels that have a DC capacity of 850 Kilo-Watts and a Tesla Megapack 2 that can deploy a capacity of 2,887 KWh for peak shaving.
Poland-based PV distributor Menlo Electric announced a 250 MW module tender for deliveries in 2022. Tender spans a broad range of module types, including black frame, bifacial and full black. The modules will be primarily offered to B2C and B2B installers across Central Europe, with shipping expected to Gdańsk, Poland as well as ports of Southern Europe in Slovenia and/or Romania.
