PAY-AS-YOU-GO
Today, In the world there are 1,2 billion people without access to the power grid and other millions do have access to the grid but cannot afford it. As a result, they have to look for other energy sources like fossil fuels, biomass and illegal connection to the grid, ending up being more expensive and unsafe.
As a solution from the private and public sector, appeared Pay-As-You-Go systems that operates in different ways (rent to own or energy service) but the main objective is to offer prepaid energy to guarantee a minimum access to energy at an affordable price for millions of people. Every year people using this system is added to the statistics improving their living conditions and actually well adopting this devices making like this PAYG business a growing market. But as any business model it has some challenges that it may overcome like finance, supplier structures, competition among others.
Despite all the environmental (decreasing of the CO2 emissions), economic (savings in kerosene and mobile charging up to $258 millions between Africa and Asia) and social benefits (reduction in the health issues and death due to pollutant energy sources) that they have brought it is important to questions 4 global things: The role of governments in expanding energy access, the capacity of the PAYG solar systems to respond to every time higher demands, management of the private information of the consumers and finally the environmental impact of these millions of electronic devices considering their use lifetime of approx. 3 years (production and disposals).
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09 Jan 2017
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sgonzalezmoreno
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