Panel: Extending energy services to the world’s poorest people through technology, enterprise and ownership.

September 7, 2010
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

New York City Parks Department, Arc Finance and Solar One present:

When: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Where: The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue
Reception to follow.
R.S.V.P. required. Call 212.360.1324, or email rsvp@parks.nyc.gov

Access to energy for services such as lighting, cooking and communications is an essential precondition for eradicating poverty in the 21st century. Yet today, 1.6 billion people currently have no access to electricity. Over 2.5 billion depend on traditional cooking fuel sources that exact intolerably high impacts on human health and the environment.

While scaled deployment of the energy infrastructures that are typical in the world’s advanced economies remains remote even in the long-term in many parts of the rural developing world, innovative technologies, companies and approaches to service are setting the stage for a new energy paradigm. In contrast to conventional aid-based models, such a paradigm is characterized by local enterprise and end-user investment and ownership .

In this conversation, a distinguished panel of energy sector innovators will discuss their work and provide a firsthand account of today’s leading energy challenges and opportunities in the developing world.

Panel Participants:

Sarah Alexander, Innovations Manager, Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO)

Edwin Adkins, Research Coordinator, Millennium Village Project, Energy Program.

Jacob Winiecki, Co-Founder, Simpa Networks

Moderated by Christopher Neidl, Consultant, Arc Finance


Posted on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 6:54 am | Tagged in Solar One Events | posted by SolarOne

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