Presenta

1. Solar Plant in Sahara
Technology Entrepreneurship Venture Lab 2012
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8. Introduction
• The Sahara, "The Great Desert", are names for the same big
thing: the world's largest hot desert and second largest
desert.
• It has over 4.6 mill square kilometres and an extremely dry
and hot climate, the average annual temperature is 86°F
(30°C) but during the hottest months temperatures can
exceed 122°F (50°C).
• The solar plant we are proposing to build would use that
incredible source of energy.
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9. Reasons for choosing Sahara
• In the sahara desert the sunlight is very intense, much more than Europe
Sahara • A solar photovoltaic panel in the sahara will produce 3 times more
Desert electricity compared with same panel in Europe
conditions
• High photovoltaic energy performance
• Mauritania is the country in the Sahara selected to develop our idea.
• 20% of the people of Mauritania is living with less than US$ 1.25 per day.
Mauritania • Mauritania nowadays has stable politics and has attracted worldwide
Country investors for its marine and mineral resources.
selected to
build solar • Initially, our solar plant would be situated near the city of Atar (25K
plant inhabitants) where water resources has been recently discovered. Based
on this discovery, the population of the city is expected to grow
and, therefore, the energy requirements of the population would rocket in
the near future.
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10. Business Model
• International would assume most of the investment needed to accomplish
the deployment of the solar farm
International
investors • They would obtain profit from the energy generated by the solar plant
• Long range guaranteed profitability
• Population of the area where the solar plant is going to be built would
benefit form it in one or both or the following manners:
 working in the solar plant in exchange of an electrical installation in
their homes plus electricity to run their basic electrical devices (TV for
Local example)
communities
 becoming minor investors of the solar plant. Part of the investment to
be accomplished in the solar plant could be done by families that
would access to a micro-credit thanks to our partnership with
sustainable banks.
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11. Microcredits business model
• Small loans to poor borrowers.
• Designed to boost entrepreneurship, increase incomes and alleviate
Local families
funding poverty.
• Already an extended and successful model in developing countries.
• New concept for microcredit as the timeframe needed for the solar plant is
much larger than traditional micro credits that usually are oriented to very
Soalr micro
short term (weeks or months)
credit
characteristics
• Micro credits would be guaranteed from the energy produced by the solar
plant and the utility company that operates the plant is in charge of paying
interests of micro credits on behalf of local families.
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12. Distribution network for spare energy generated
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13. From crowdfunding …
… to solarfunding
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14. With this solar plant, each family in the Sahara area
selected could
invest in solar panels, as a cooperative
community, and they could get their own
FREE ENERGY to improve their quality of lives helping
small towns to gain momentum.
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