Sunlabob has been awarded the prestigious "Ashden Award for sustainable energy"

Sunlabob Ltd. has been awarded the prestigious "Ashden Award for sustainable energy". Andy Schroeter, the german director of the Laos based company, has been invited to London and has been personally congratulated by Al Gore and HRH the Prince of Wales.
The Ashden Award is a UK-based foundation that awards outstanding solutions for sustainable energy. This year five first prizes were awarded. Among many entries Sunlabob received the first prize for Light and Power, sponsored by Climate Care in the UK.
Sunlabob had submitted the Solar Lamp solution. Thereby lamps with accumulators and charging electronics are distributed to households who each have to pay a deposit for the lamp. The deposit is refunded when they bring back the lamp. The lamps burn for 15 hours after which they switch off. The households then go to a central recharging station that is operated by a village technician as a small enterprise. There they can exchange the spent lamp for a recharged one and only pay a recharging fee, ie. the deposit transfers to the recharged lamp which they take home. The recharging fees from all the lamps pay for the whole backup system: This is the state-of-the-art large solar array in the village that acts as the recharging station and which is rented by the village technician from Sunlabob. The rent covers all costs including amortizations, servicing, replacements and profit of Sunlabob. Our test-runs and calculations show that the recharging fees the households pay for regular lighting at home is comparable or even cheaper than what they spend for kerosene in the lamps they presently use. We are very proud to be able to achieve this without any direct subsidies, and we are proud that this solution has been developed in the field in Laos and is now internationally recognized as a breakthrough for photovoltaics in remote rural areas anywhere on the planet.

Sunlabob Ltd. (www.sunlabob.com) is a German led company for renewable energy :
- A commercial company , the headquarter is in Vientiane, Laos.
- A energy service company. They provide renewable energy to remote areas that are off the grid.
- A hardware company. They install and maintain energy equipment on a contract basis
- A training company. They train and service a network of independent reliable enterpreneurs.
- A rental company. They take up capital, buy equipment, rent out energy systems, and pay back the investments.
- Sunlabob now has a partner for Thailand - Samui Service Ltd. (www.samui-service.com)

Sunalabob Ltd.
Mr. Andy Schröter, director
Watnak village (Lao-Tai Friendship Road), Sisattanak District
P.O. Box 9077, Vientiane Municipality, Lao PDR
Phone +856 21 313874
Fax: + 856 21 314045
Mobile : +856 20 5518 016
Email: contact@sunlabob.com
www.sunlabob.com

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