RENEWVIA ENERGY
RENEWVIA ENERGY
RENEWVIA'S MISSION
Renewvia's mission is to add value and improve quality of life across the globe.
Overview
The Distributed Renewable Energy - Agriculture Modalities (DREAM) initiative will build the first solar mini grid powered large scale irrigation systems in Africa, providing farmers with reliable, affordable, and sustainable irrigation.
Partners involved in the project include:
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Ethiopia's Ministry of Water and Energy
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Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands (MILLs)
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Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)
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Agriculture Transformation Institute (ATI)
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Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
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The World Bank
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European Investment Bank and African Development Bank - Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa
Renewvia is committed to help meet the UN's SDG global targets for 2030. Renewvia directly and indirectly contributes to many of these targets, specifically the following:
Once connected to our minigrids, customers will switch from kerosene and other fuels to clean energy, and this also brings significant savings to households. Off-grid solar is not only cheaper for customers than kerosene and traditional fuel alternatives, but it also has the added benefits of being safer, healthier, more reliable, and better for the environment.
MINIGRID EXPANSION IN KALOBEYEI SETTLEMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
With the addition of Renewvia's minigrids into communities throughout Kenya and Nigeria, citizens not only have access to clean and reliable power, but electricity allows business days to be longer and greater opportunities for work. This access and growth of opportunity within the community enables a household to increase their monthly income.
HEALTH
Much like with economic growth, access to reliable power means greater access to clinics and improved healthcare due to longer operating days. Access to renewable energy also eliminates the use of harmful materials including coal and kerosene leading to long-term health benefits throughout the communities.
PRODUCTIVITY
Access to Renewvia's minigrids allows communities to work later, students to study longer, and general productivity to increase. With electricity, communities are able to invest in small household appliances that improve their quality of life and make their usual activities on a day to day basis more time efficient.
SAFETY
In addition to communities feeling safer with access to outdoor and indoor lighting, less travel through dark, dangerous areas to charge phones decreases ones exposure to unsafe situations. In addition, access to quality outdoor lighting means less risk of theft and encounters with animals as well as fewer fire-related incidents caused by the use of kerosene lights and appliances.
GENDER EQUALITY
Access to Minigrid electricity provides women and girls with the opportunity to increase their daily productivity. Water is now more readily accessible throughout the community, freeing up girls' days to attend school with the boys. Greater access to reliable electricity decreases the gender equality gap by allowing women the time to be more involved in household and community decisions that are usually up to men.
RENEWVIA'S UNITED STATES EMISSIONS OFFSET DATA
20 States
100 Operating Systems
172,890 Lifetime MWh Generated
80,000 Metric Tons of CO2 Emissions Offset
INCREASING SUSTAINABILITY
One of the best ways to measure the impact of renewable energy is to calculate the Carbon Dioxide emissions that are being offset by the renewable source. Based off of detailed state data provided by the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration), the example above provides a scale for how much emissions can be offset through a single investment in solar. Based off the same data, the example below provides a scale for not only one solar Investment, but multiple solar investments within a portfolio.
