CLEAN
Household electricity displaces unhealthy alternatives like kerosene that are harmful to people and planet, at a fraction of the cost. Our hybrid grids incorporate solar and wind to help Haiti achieve its CO2 emission targets.
RELIABLE
24/7 electricity powers daily life without restrictions, from homes, to businesses, to industry. Energy is AC 120V, 240V, and 480V tailored to the needs of each customer and suitable for existing appliances. .
FAIRLY-PRICED
Pay-as-you-go energy with no monthly minimum spend means everyone gets connected – no customer is too small. Flexible payment options include mobile money, online purchases, and direct street vendor kWh purchases.
FOUR GRIDS AND COUNTING…
ABOUT US
What began as a dream to bring electricity to a clinic in remote Môle St. Nicholas has evolved into a full-scale green utility project. Working closely communities alongside a team of dedicated investors, Sigora Haiti is developing the necessary infrastructure to generate and distribute wind and solar power to the people of Haiti–power that is clean, reliable, and affordable.
Sigora introduced affordable electricity to the remote town of Mole-St-Nicholas in North West Haiti in early 2016 by offering prepaid electricity. Today, the grid – built from the ground up in under one year by Sigora – provides 24/7 affordable, prepaid power to over 10,000 residents.
UTILITY-MANAGEMENT ENGINEERED FOR FRONTIER MARKETS
It didn’t exist, so we built it. Our fully-vertically integrated utility–management platform streamlines bill collection, defends against energy theft, increases operational efficiency for improved service delivery and leverages existing infrastructure for rural internet access.
LOCAL EXPERTISE
Over 90% of our staff hail from the local community and are trained in-house. From carrying out community assessments, to developing generation and transmission plans, construction and O&M, our teams are making clean, reliable, and fairly-priced energy a reality in Haiti’s most remote regions.
SIGORA IN THE NEWS
See what people are saying about us!
“Access to electricity is crucial for almost all aspects of human and economic development. The right of all people to access affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity that elevates living standards while promoting economic growth, preserving natural resources, and mitigating and adapting to climate change has been widely recognized.”
United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)
“Technology offers the promise of economic progress for billions in emerging economies at a speed that would have been unimaginable without the mobile Internet.”
McKinsey Global Institute
We connected our first customer, the Mole-St-Nicolas Public Clinic, in December 2015. In under 12 months, we developed, engineered, and financed our first micro-grid. Today, Sigora operates two micro-grids and one pico-grid, with a further grid under construction, providing clean, reliable, and affordable power to over 20,000 people under a 25-year power supplier contract with the municipality.
Sigora has signed and has ratified agreements to bring power to four communes and the surrounding areas in Haiti’s Northwest department. Over the next two years, Sigora plans to connect 35,000 accounts, ultimately benefiting 150,000 people with clean, reliable, and fairly-priced power.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Our reputation is growing
BEST MICROGRID –
Sigora Haiti’s Môle-Saint-Nicolas microgrid was awarded “Best Microgrid Project” at the 9th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the largest annual gathering of the Caribbean renewable energy market in October 2017. The CREF awards, a collaboration between New Energy Events and Rocky Mountain Institute – Carbon War Room, recognize the most innovative and financially compelling renewable energy projects in the region, many of which are the first of their kind either on their island or in the wider Caribbean.
CARIBBEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY FORUM
AFFORDABLE ACCESS INITIATIVE –
Sigora International is one of 10 winners of the 2017 Microsoft Airband Initiative, formerly the Affordable Access Initiative, which recognizes innovative businesses that are developing technologies, services, and business models that help billions of people affordably get online and gain access to energy.
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