The Solar Barrow
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Okay, but why mount a solar system to a wheelbarrow frame instead of installing it at people's homes?
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The Solar Barrow provides basic electricity to people in remote regions of Lesotho that cars can not reach.
The Kingdom of Lesotho is the highest country in the World with an elevation of over 1,200 m above sea level at its lowest point. Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in Africa with an average electrification rate of under 60%. The mountainous terrain and the rocky underground render the expansion of the national grid into an expensive exercise.
For the same reasons, the quality of the road network is far below western standard. Many villages can not be reached by car and traveling there includes foot-walks of several hours over well-worn and caved-in tracks.
The transportation of equipment for solar power systems into these areas, presents a real logistic challenge because the batteries are heavy and the glass covered panels can break easily.
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The Solar Barrow is up to 40% cheaper than an installed system with comparable specifications.
The aforementioned challenging terrain as well as the poor condition of the road network can turn visits to a customer's property into adventures and costly undertakings. However, the installation of solar power systems usually does require multiple travels to the customer's property in order to provide quotations and for the actual installation works.
The Solar Barrow on the other hand is produced at the Qualiworx Engineering offices in Maseru which makes drilling into our customers' walls, climbing their roofs, paying for costly overnight stays in hotels and buying petrol for the means of transport obsolete.
