Orb Energy Pte Ltd, which provides solar energy systems to off-grid households, has raised $1.1 million in equity funding from non-profit venture firm Acumen Fund. The funding will be used by Orb to extend its household lighting systems to rural customers and scale its manufacturing, besides developing new products.
Existing investors in Orb Energy include London-based Zouk Ventures (which manages $100 million across two venture funds) and the Singh family, who founded UK-based retailer New Look (and took it private with Apax and Permira in a $1 billion deal in 2004).
Orb sells, installs and services a full range of systems including solar photovoltaic systems for lighting and back-up power, solar thermal for hot water, solar street lighting for security, as well as energy-efficient lights, fans and other appliances. Over the last four years, Orb has installed approximately 25,000 solar systems. It currently operates 90 branches across four states – Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra. The company directly markets its products and employs more than 500 people for solar equipment sales, installation and service.Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs.
With this new round of funding, Orb plans to double the number of branches and employees over the next two years. The Bangalore and Singapore-based firm will also expand the capacity of monthly sales and installations from 1,000 to 2,000 systems.In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards.
India’s rural Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population includes 114 million households, 45 per cent of which do not have reliable access to electricity and rely on kerosene for lighting.
Several companies are trying to tap this demand. There is d.light, backed by the likes of Omidyar Network and Mahindra group, which provides affordable energy and lighting solutions based on solar and LED technology.
Then, there are other players like Patna-based Husk Power Systems that converts rice husk into electricity by using biomass gasification technology and has mini power plants located across off-grid areas.While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment
Acumen India, which has invested over $22 million in the country since 2001, has backed companies like Kochi-based ayurvedic chain Ayur Vaid Hospitals, Hyderabad-based LifeSpring Hospitals, Mumbai-based ambulance start-up service Dial 1298 For Ambulance and Drishtee, a rural communications company.
2011年6月22日 星期三
MusicLites Looks To Save Space By Combining LED Lights And Audio Into One
MusicLites Looks To Save Space By Combining LED Lights And Audio Into One
Looking for a way to pipe music through your entire house but don’t have enough space or you don’t know where to begin? Perhaps Artison and Osram Slyvania will be able to help you with that, with their MusicLites product which combines high fidelity audio and LEDs into one simple and elegant solution. The companies behind the product are Artison,In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards. who is a high-end quality audio technology firm while Osram Sylvania is North America’s number one lightning company and together they have created the MusicLites which was debuted today.Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. The idea behind MusicLites was for a way for consumers who wanted a robust audio system but did not want to deal with all the power plugs and speaker wires.
How it works is that the light socket powers both the speakers and the light with the speakers communicating through a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless transmitter and receiver system which can be connected to basically any audio source such as stereos, televisions, computers, iPods, iPads, etc, so basically connecting it to your television could mean that the sound could essentially be broadcast to any room in your house that has MusicLites installed. A pretty neat and elegant solution which not only saves space but hides speakers from view, giving guests to your home the illusion that sound is coming from everywhere without them knowing that it’s actually coming from the ceiling.
.Kendall County has received some green for being green.
Tom Pence of the Illinois Clean Energy Foundation presented the county with $96,960 for installing LED lights in the county office building, the public safety center, the historic courthouse and the facilities management-coroner’s offices.
The grant paid for most of the cost of changing over the lights, and county officials found another grant to pick up the difference.
Pence said the lighting will cut the county’s energy usage by 80 percent,While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment or put another way, the equivalent of enough energy for 54 homes.
Looking for a way to pipe music through your entire house but don’t have enough space or you don’t know where to begin? Perhaps Artison and Osram Slyvania will be able to help you with that, with their MusicLites product which combines high fidelity audio and LEDs into one simple and elegant solution. The companies behind the product are Artison,In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards. who is a high-end quality audio technology firm while Osram Sylvania is North America’s number one lightning company and together they have created the MusicLites which was debuted today.Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. The idea behind MusicLites was for a way for consumers who wanted a robust audio system but did not want to deal with all the power plugs and speaker wires.
How it works is that the light socket powers both the speakers and the light with the speakers communicating through a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless transmitter and receiver system which can be connected to basically any audio source such as stereos, televisions, computers, iPods, iPads, etc, so basically connecting it to your television could mean that the sound could essentially be broadcast to any room in your house that has MusicLites installed. A pretty neat and elegant solution which not only saves space but hides speakers from view, giving guests to your home the illusion that sound is coming from everywhere without them knowing that it’s actually coming from the ceiling.
.Kendall County has received some green for being green.
Tom Pence of the Illinois Clean Energy Foundation presented the county with $96,960 for installing LED lights in the county office building, the public safety center, the historic courthouse and the facilities management-coroner’s offices.
The grant paid for most of the cost of changing over the lights, and county officials found another grant to pick up the difference.
Pence said the lighting will cut the county’s energy usage by 80 percent,While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy, it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect our environment or put another way, the equivalent of enough energy for 54 homes.
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