Solar Hospital EnergyLeasing Demonstrator (SHIELD)

Partners: University Of Oxford

Country: Kenya

Technology: Leave no one behind technologies and business models

Stage: Early

Stage: Round 10

Kenya’s public hospitals lack electrical power meaning persistent blackouts causing instability in energy supplies leading to high costs to power vital services. When the power fails, so do the fridges, breaking the ‘cold chain’. Vaccines can be lost and expensive medicines perished, and life depending surgeries cancelled or abandoned.

Onsite solar energy generation provides technological solutions with huge potential to address these key issues. Through the Solar Hospital Energy Leasing Demonstrator (SHIELD) project Astonfield Solar are aiming make Kenya’s hospitals more resilient by installing a solar system at one of Kenya’s most important public hospitals so that they can save more lives and work through the extreme weather they face in the years ahead. It is hoped that this project will show how other public hospitals in Africa can utilise onsite solar energy installations to serve the most vulnerable populations though this cost-effective and value-adding method.