DigitalSENSE Business News:
Messrs GVE Projects Ltd, Trans Africa Gas Electric Plc and
Afe Babalola University emerged the top-three in the 2013 General Electric
Africa and USAIDF Off-Grid Energy Challenge with each going home $100,000,
about N16million each to support their initiatives, DigitalSENSE Business News
reports.
Speaking at the presentation hosted in collaboration with
the BusinessDay, President of GE Africa, Mr. Jay Ireland expressed optimism in
the Nigerian economy and commended winners for their achievements in solving a
fraction of energy challenge in the country.
President, United States African Development Foundation
(USADF), Shari Berenbach in her remark said that their participant in the collaboration with
GE Africa was in fulfillment of its objectives, just as she assured of future
collaboration on the project.
She noted that winners were chosen for demonstrating new
business models to deliver sustainable energy to under-served marginal
populations without degrading the environment.
DigitalSENSE
Business News recalls that the winners announced at a grand event in Lagos,
notes that the GE USADF Off-grid Energy Challenge was launched in Kenya and
Nigeria with plans to expand to other African countries over the next 3 years.
About 2 million dollars will be won in all.
GVE Projects limited designed an 18 KW solar powered off
grid electricity project that will generate electricity for not less than 140
homes through a mini-gird in the Egbeke community of Rivers state. For Trans
Africa Gas and Electric PLC their project was a standalone cold storage
facility embedded in 2 rural communities in Dandanrua Road and Tudun Wada both
in Jos, north central Nigeria.
The
storage facility, with an 8kW solar nameplate generator, will allow farmers to
cool and store their produce before bringing to market. The third winner, Afe
Babalola University plans to generate 2.5 megawatts of electricity through a
renewable hydro-electric power system that will serve over 10,000 members of
the university community and beyond. To achieve this, the university plans to
construct a dam in a community river.Chuks Egbuna/GEE
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