JCS investment Limited, in collaboration with Sola Kiosk, has introduced a range of solar products in Ghana to help the deprived have access to affordable energy.
The products, which are solar cookers, bulbs, fridges, deep freezers and fans, would enable rural and deprived communities have an alternative source of power, and save the national electricity grid from excessive pressure.
The JCS and Sola Kiosk, which couldn’t establish themselves in communities without taking the health and economic lives of the people into consideration, organised a free health screening exercise for residents at Kolobita to launch the products. Similar exercises were carried out in Somaya, Adesu, Breaks and several other communities in southern part of the country, the Managing Director of JCS Investment Limited, Patricia Sarfo, told the media last week.
She said though solar products are quiet expensive, it saves money in the long term, and that was the reason why the company was targeting deprived areas. To her, since Africa has abundant sunshine, solar energy is the future of the country.
Andreas Spiess, Chief Executive Officer of Sola Kiosk, based in Berlin, Germany, said the company is present in six Africa countries apart from Ghana. Though Sola Kiosk is a German company, Mr, Spiess said, Africa, currently, is the most promising continent, and he wants to be part of its development process.
According to him, even though Germany has less sunshine as compared to Ghana, 10% of their power supply was from solar: “Africa has lot of sunshine. It is the sunniest place on earth, and yet most needed of energy.” He added that Sola Kiosk was in the country to contribute its quota towards improving energy in Ghana and the Africa Continent as a whole.