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Solar & Tech

Technologies

Another major part of TecAp’s work is identifying technologies that are appropriate for low income rural families.  These technologies save time, energy, and/or money, are environmentally sustainable, are affordable, and often times are sourced from local materials.

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Advocacy

TecAp represents the interests of low-income farmers A significant part of TecAp’s work is advocating on behalf of low-income farmers, cooperatives, and local governments in order to ensure that they are receiving fair treatment in terms of renewable energy investments. TecAp assures that low-income farmers are administered a proper needs assessment to determine their electrical […]

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Financing Solar

TecAp puts valuable technologies within reach for low-income farmers One of the biggest obstacles for low income coffee producers to buying a solar system is that they do not have the cash to pay $1,000 for a home system or $2,000 for a large enough system to assist their farm activities. Designed from the point […]

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Benefits

Families talk benefits of solar 50 families benefited from long-term loan arrangements that TecAp successfully negotiated with an international lender Root Capital and a Nicaraguan coffee cooperative UCPCO in July of 2010.  TecAp revisited these families to find out what their experience had been like and what benefits they had experienced since having their home […]

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Solar & Tech

TecAp solves a financial problem so the poor have access to valuable, life-changing technologies TecAp works to identify solar and other appropriate technologies and to make those technologies available and affordable for the people that need them most.  Some of the technologies that TecAp is looking into include solar energy, smokeless stoves (“improved cook stoves”), […]