ZOLA electric announces launch of world’s largest off-grid solar home solution – FLEX MAX

-The brand new resolution expands ZOLA’s portfolio of main hybrid photo voltaic vitality and storage options supposed for rising markets -Gives ‘electrical energy infrastructure in a field’ for off-grid and peri-urban markets

San Francisco, CA, 9 February 2023: ZOLA Electrical, the main Enterprise expertise firm delivering Power Entry in rising markets, pronounces the launch of a brand new expertise resolution, FLEX MAX. It’s the largest off-grid photo voltaic dwelling resolution (SHS) – together with the biggest battery and photo voltaic panel expertise – out there on the worldwide market.

The launch expands ZOLA’s community structure by introducing a product that elegantly serves prospects residing on the convergence of off-grid and on-grid. FLEX MAX serves householders seeking to energy AC home equipment comparable to refrigeration alongside lights, connections, TVs, and companies searching for merchandise that can be utilized productively. It matches seamlessly into ZOLA’s community of {hardware} options and, like all ZOLA merchandise, is put in, commissioned, optimized and managed by way of Imaginative and prescient, the community administration software program platform in ZOLA.

FLEX MAX builds on ZOLA’s main distributed vitality enterprise platform, the one expertise on the planet that goals to ship community-level electrification to three billion individuals residing with out reasonably priced, dependable vitality. It’s an evolution of ZOLA’s plug-and-play photo voltaic and storage hybrid energy system FLEX, designed for entry-level off-grid primary dwelling equipment use. Along with lighting, TVs, and followers, the elevated capability of FLEX MAX can enhance the facility of high-efficiency AC and DC fridges in residential settings, in order that prospects can higher retailer meals and scale back spoilage, and develop its software from dwelling to workplaces and hospitals.

FLEX MAX offers ‘electrical infrastructure in a field’ for patrons with no connection or these with weak / unreliable grid connections and never a lot roof area. In a position to pay from photo voltaic and the grid, FLEX MAX is a step up from earlier generations, permitting ZOLA to serve rural communities and the ‘peri-urban’ market. The core worth of FLEX MAX is its bigger, modular battery and its flexibility to make use of each high-efficiency home equipment with AC in addition to DC techniques within the infrastructure, in order that extra prospects can use of present home equipment whereas benefiting from the flexibility of ZOLA’s DC ecosystem.

An necessary further function of FLEX MAX is the combination of latest income fashions that can enhance the capability of ZOLA’s distributor companions to supply financing options to their prospects. The incorporation of latest {hardware} and software program options will facilitate new financing mechanisms, comparable to pay-as-you-go fashions that help distant management of buyer networks and permit the system shall be locked in case of non-payment. Importantly, it addresses the shortage of conventional vitality financing mechanisms within the growing world, combating the difficulty of affordability for end-users, whereas additionally supporting distribution companions. .

Invoice Lenihan, Chief Govt Officer of ZOLA Electrical, mentioned:

“We’re happy so as to add FLEX MAX to ZOLA’s market-leading Enterprise expertise platform, delivering distributed, clear, digital vitality options to those that want it most. FLEX MAX gives vital enhancements in {hardware} and software program and essentially the most superior battery expertise doable.a game-changer in bettering the reliability of vitality techniques in rising markets.

“By our useful partnerships with native integrators and distributors, our options have been put in in properties, companies, colleges and hospitals in 10 international locations on 4 continents, serving greater than two million buyer. The ZOLA platform of hybrid battery and storage options, monitored and managed by VISION, is the primary absolutely built-in, modular and clever platform function constructed for the Power Entry sector.”

ZOLA’s B2B mannequin delivers clear, dependable and reasonably priced vitality to rising markets world wide, distributed by way of main native market integrators together with EDF, Shell, Econet/DPA and of rising DRE (distributed renewable vitality) integrators comparable to Blue Camel in Nigeria. Its B2B mannequin allows its integrator companions in native markets to effectively construct and handle networks that ship electrification on the group degree to offer Power Entry the place it’s most wanted.

Doye Ogionwo, Chief Industrial Officer of ZOLA Electrical, mentioned:

“The launch of FLEX MAX could be very thrilling and an enormous innovation milestone for Power Entry. We’re excited for the brand new prospects and productiveness we are able to create for our companions in B2B distribution worldwide, whose partnership is crucial as we work collectively to maneuver ahead the vitality transition.

“We invite everybody with an impact-driven give attention to international energy to hitch us on our journey – as we proceed to strengthen the attain of our affect and expertise.”

ZOLA’s latest notable milestones embrace the launch of Rwanda’s first distributed mini-grid, in partnership with META (previously Fb), Shell Basis, USAID, and Endev, and its market entry in Haiti in partnership with Haiti Inexperienced Options, which offers entry to vitality and assist amid the nation’s extreme vitality disaster.

In lots of rising markets, the shortage of dependable main energy has resulted within the set up of thousands and thousands of back-up options (diesel mills, lead acid batteries) which can be poorly built-in, troublesome to handle, unreliable, costly, soiled, and missing in intelligence. In consequence, socio-economic growth, well being care and schooling are severely hampered. ZOLA’s objective is to drive entry to vitality to the three billion individuals and a whole lot of thousands and thousands of companies world wide that at present lack it.