blueEnergy - Renewable Energy in Nicaragua

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blueEnergy - Renewable Energy in NicaraguablueEnergyGroup49 sec - Mar 28, 2007This short clip shows blueEnergy's energy project sites on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The audio portion is a radio spot developed by the Bluefields Sounds System for blueEnergy and features Nicaragua Creole reggae star Kali Boom. The spot runs in Bluefields, Nicaragua on the most popular radio show on Sundays. blueEnergy provides a low-cost, sustainable solution to the energy needs of marginalized communities through the construction, installation, and maintenance of hybrid wind and solar energy systems. By manufacturing wind turbines and other key components locally, near their point of usage, blueEnergy is able to keep energy costs low, improve equipment serviceability, and create employment where it is desperately needed. In order to deliver a lasting solution, blueEnergy implements a business model that combines a charitable social vision of serving the poor with the technical and business sense of for-profit enterprise. blueEnergy invests heavily in developing local capacity so that its projects can be run and sustained by local people for local benefit. To ensure financial stability, blueEnergy places high priority on identifying and capturing revenue streams outside of public charity, such as commercial sales of energy systems, energy system leases, community battery charging fees, project consulting fees, and government contracts. This innovative approach to delivering energy services provides new hope for the nearly 2 billion people globally that are without access to basic electricity service. Such service is widely considered a necessary, although not sufficient, requirement for modern economic and social development. In Nicaragua, blueEnergy's initial target country, half of the roughly 5 million inhabitants do not have access to electricity; the situation is particularly grim in the Caribbean Coast region of the country where nearly 80% of the inha
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