053 Group Access to Solar Lighting – Publication of deliverables

The deliverables from the Send a Cow Solar Project are now online! The project was very succesfull and proved that a well thought out marketing strategy for well-organized groups, in this case farmer groups, can achieve significant number of solar PV sales and has potential for replication and scaling up. Over 165 solar home systems [...]

Newsletter Send a Cow Uganda

Send a Cow Uganda has issued its fourth edition of the SACU Mirror quarterly e-magazine: Send A Cow Newsletter . SACU is the EASE partner in Uganda, working on the sale of low-cost solar products through farmer groups. You can find more about this project on the ‘projects’ page.

053 Group Access to Solar Lighting

Solar PV will be presented to the target groups as an energy source that can be used for basic household energy needs for example lighting, phone charging and entertainment. It is planned that a solar vendor will present solar products they have in stock and make a single purchase as a group. It is planned that after this pilot, several SACU groups will be inducted into the project to encourage sustainability of the approach in enabling groups access solar lighting.

052 Increasing access with agro-processing

Diesel engines powering agro-processing machinery enhance human nutrition, save productive time and add value to marketable produce thus presenting a good potential for boosting rural development. However, the use of these engines to generate energy to support other income generating activities and services is greatly limited by knowledge of the possibilities, inadequate technical and entrepreneurial skills. The knowledge gap regarding the potential inherent in the diesel engines and the potential contribution of the specialised large importers and dealers concentrated in Kampala city and to support rural based entrepreneurs in the countryside, who are not connected to the national grid to exploit the potential in diesel engines needs a bridging intervention.