Solarly's Crowdfunding
For more than a year, Solarly develops connected, autonomous and affordable Solar Home System that aim to integrate Blockchain through Solarcoin. and others ways. Solarcoin promote global solar electricity throught rewarding Solar electricity producers, like Steem incentivize intresting posts through rewarding authors.
We are about to launch our pilot phase of 6 months during which we will equip in electricity a village in the region of Bamenda in Cameroon.
Presentation of our project at the NestUp Demoday
The energetic problem in Africa
What would happen if we had no access to energy? No more light, no access to internet, no way to recharge our cell phone battery. You understood it very well: energy is the breeding ground of development; without energy, there is no possible growth.
Solarly supports the development of rural population in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing a sustainable energy and life changing services.
Solarly designs, manufactures and installs Solar Home System of about 200W connected, autonomous and affordable, that offer an easy access to electricity, revenues opportunities and an energetic independence.
Our solar station allows to:
Today the populations of Sub Saharian Africa live day by day with a limited budget.
But Solarly offers its users or someone else to pay periodically by SMS (phone credits) or by cryptocurrencies substantially the same amount to their current spending on lighting (+/- 10€/month) for a predefined period of maximum 3 years. At the end of this period, the user owns the solar station.
This business model is highlighted in several reports (available here and here) as the solution to solar products financing problems in the developping countries.
An improved quality of life
The station offers several opportunities:
- Continue the activities after sunset.
- Allow children to study in healthy and appropriate conditions.
- Generate new incomes (hair dresser, recharge-point for cell phones,…)
- Access to clean and sustainable energy.
- At term, once the station is reimbursed, a total energy independence.
- A real time monitoring of the use of stations, allowing quality services.
First implementation in Bamenda
In September 2016, we will deploy about 30 solar stations in the villages of the Bamenda region in Cameroon. This will allow us all together to validate our implementation strategies and improve our product.
In order to realize this key step, we need a total amount of € 90.000 that will be funded through patrons, public and private institutions, but also thanks to your participation.
Cost of implementation
Objective of the crowdfunding
The funds obtained thanks to the crowdfunding will exclusively serve the financing, the transport and the installation of the first solar stations. It will also serve to pay wages and the training of employees on site.
With € 20.000
Funds will be allocated to our first implementation phase. These 6 first months will electrify 30 households by installing one station per household. It will also allow us to validate our partnership with local stakeholders and verify the behavior of our solar stations in real conditions. We can alsotrain a local person for the maintenance of the stations during 6 months.
With € 40.000
Funds will be used to deploy 30 additional stations. We can optimize the station in order toproduce them at a larger scale. In addition, we will be able to train a second local person for the solar station maintenance.
With 60.000 and more
Funds will be allocated to launch production at a larger scale as well as to train local actors in the assembly and maintenance of the products as well as prospecting.
Our implementation strategy wants to focus on creation of activities and employment. We want to give the Cameroon’s population the benefit of a transfer of competencies.
Solarly is a project. But it is first of all a multi-disciplinary and complementary team:
We met around shared values and the desire to contribute at our scale to the development of Africa with a solution that would facilitate access to energy.
We went there more than one year ago with a first prototype to confront ourselves to the reality of the field and get a first feedback from rural population, economic and politic actors.
It is through this journey that the Solarly project was born
You can finance our project by several ways:
BTC : 1DKYjRiFtSUPK4odMQBHR3wEfGEnMQRRuk
SLR: 8Z1epwvSkXxGmUVXJNsTLFxKu5r8DPmJig
ETH : 0x632e069b7870947eb5c30034d8981cb61b057cc9
STEEM : To deposit coins, use the Memo (e183bd6f941e41c2b00) and Registered Account in the transfer command: transfer "</p>
If it is easier for you, you may also make a donation by bank transfer in order to finance this project. Iban : BE73 2710 1237 0360 Bic : GEBABEBBA
Our partners
Solarly has already gained the trust and support of several partners:
DTO-export is a company with decades of experience in Central Africa active in great Import, retail and agribusiness. Its CEO takes a personal interest in Solarly since it started. He offers us his logistical structure and also his personal and professional experience of the field.
NEST’up is an accelerator program for start-ups, member of the Global Accelerator Network, created by Creative Wallonia Engine on the same model as the American accelerators TechStars.
Yelema is a company producing documentaries. They will follow us during our implementation phase.
The SolarCoin is a financial incitement based on the blockchain technology that rewards the producers of solar electricity.
The OPENHUB is an innovation lab that crosses the UCL expertise with the CEI and about 30 actors of the private and public sectors. It is equipped with advanced technologies to build high-value practical solutions for tomorrow's society.
Africa Rise is a Belgian organization that aims to facilitate contacts between European entrepreneurs and their African counterparts and participate insocial and economic emergence of the African continent.
And new partnerships are about to be concluded.
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