News : solar energy and company life
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Lagazel’s after-sales service network expands to Saint-Louis, Senegal
Since 2019, the NGO The Partnership has been helping to spread collective charging stations and Kalo solar lamps in the St. Louis region. By mid-2023, the region will have more than 50 charging stations and 3200 lamps in use. To ensure the sustainability of the lighting service and the longevity of the projects, the Partnership has worked with Lagazel to [...]
Interview with Espérance Houessou, Director of Lagazel Benin
A few months after the start of the manufacturing of lamps and solar-home-systems in Porto Novo, Espérance HOUESSOU, Director of Lagazel Benin, tells us how the activities on the field are going. The Lagazel BN workshop was inaugurated in October 2021. Can you tell us how the first months of activities are going? Yes, Lagazel Benin was inaugurated precisely on [...]
To enlighten rural communities, Lagazel Benin proposes an exceptional offer!
From June 1st 2022 and while stocks last, Lagazel Benin is committed to offering one LK600 lamp for each solar lamp purchased for the benefit of Benin's rural populations... How does it work? Contact our team in Benin (+229 97 42 44 31) or in France (+33 (0)6 22 97 82 41) to reserve your solar lamps. Our experienced collaborators [...]
Replays and presentations of the workshop about e-waste in West Africa
On March 10th, Lagazel organized an online workshop on solar e-waste in West Africa. Organized within the framework of the Global Leap Solar E-waste Challenge program, the workshop gathered 15 speakers and a hundred participants around 4 sessions on different topics related to WEEE and solar e-waste management in West Africa: actors, regulations, battery reconditioning, business models,... Find below the [...]
To strengthen and develop the local added value of LAGAZEL’s production workshops
In 2020-21, LAGAZEL has conducted a project aiming at strengthening and developing the local added value of LAGAZEL's production workshops in order to offer quality solar products to the off-grid solar industry while creating sustainable local jobs in Burkina Faso et in Benin. With the financial support of the Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities (PREO) Programme, supported by UK aid via [...]
Workshop on March 10th: solar e-waste in West Africa
Despite a sizing growth of the solar off-grid market, there is few initiatives to manage solar e-waste in West Africa. Since 2020, with the support of the Global Leap Solar E-waste Challenge, Lagazel has conducted a pilot project which objective is to develop secondary battery packs adapted to different applications and optimize cells' use and service continuity despite faulty cells. [...]
Lagazel utilise la station de charge solaire Kalo pour la réutilisation des cellules LFP
Les études menées par le CEA, partenaire technique de Lagazel dans le cadre du projet FASEP de réduction des déchets solaires, ont montré que le diagnostic électrochimique et électrique est indispensable pour la fabrication de systèmes de stockage à base de cellules Li-ion reconditionnées. Le déroulement du diagnostic se déroule en deux étapes. Une premier étape « rapide », qui [...]
Lagazel’s charging station : a light library to improve learning conditions
Lagazel station : a collective way of improving living conditions Perfectly adapted to development projects, Lagazel collective charging station enables the simultaneous charge of 40 solar lamps. Installed in a school for example, it allows pupils to study in the evening at home thanks to a reliable light source. This system is also a positive way of encouraging education: children [...]
Lagazel Sobox solar-home-systems are now available with PAYGO feature and are compatible with PaygOps from Solaris Offgrid
LAGAZEL Sobox solar-home-systems, manufactured in Burkina Faso by the French-African company LAGAZEL, now incorporates the PAYGO functionality in combination with the PaygOps software from Solaris Offgrid. A good opportunity for solar energy distributors in the Sahelian region, who will by now be able to offer financial services to low-revenues rural populations. PAYGO (for Pay-as-you-go) photovoltaic systems incorporate a digital technology [...]
Strenghten and develop local added-value of Lagazel production facilities
Many sub-Saharean Africa countries, the off-grid energy sector is dominated by products imported from Asia and commercialized by European or US companies, which hardly creates local added value. The UK Department for International Development (UKaid) funds the Transforming Energy Access program, whose component POP VA&EC (Powering Opportunities Partnership - Local value Addition and Employement Creation) aims at increasing access to [...]
Developing second hand battery packs in the off-grid energy sector
There is currently no infrastructure to support li-ion battery recycling in sub-Saharan Africa. Logistical complexity and associated costs make it difficult for solar distributors and recyclers to send batteries abroad. As a result, companies store stockpiles of Li-ion batteries at their end-of-life. On top of that, battery operation is dependent on the weakest cell in the pack, if one cell [...]
