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Sign upJanuary 26, 2024
Zima Homes
Nairobi
On January 26, 2024, SolarisKit and Zima Homes launched a project at the Wangige site in Nairobi, Kenya, installing 16 solar heating kits. Zima Homes, dedicated to climate-friendly housing, incorporated SolarisKit's innovative, efficient, and easy-to-install solar kits to advance sustainability in their design, construction, and management processes. This initiative reduces non-renewable energy reliance, lowers carbon emissions, and supports Kenya’s sustainability goals. It highlights SolarisKit’s effectiveness in cost reduction and energy efficiency, establishing Zima Homes as a leader in sustainable housing practices in Nairobi.
The SolarisKit solar hot water system installed at Zima Homes in Wangige Nairobi will save approximately 1 MWh of electricity per month, reducing the energy costs for occupants living in this affordable housing project money while also lowering their carbon footprint. Zima Homes will continue to install 68 SolarisKits on the rest of Zima Homes blocks.
SolarisKit is ideally suited to provide hot water for households (showering/bathing, cleaning, laundering clothes etc), business (hotels, ecolodges, pool heating etc), and industry (textiles, aquaculture, paper, etc.). It is a device which can be quickly assembled using simple instruction and used to convert sunlight directly into hot water. It has been designed to provide a new and affordable way to harness solar energy to heat water at up to 50 degrees Celsius, lowering users energy costs and carbon footprint. This technology allows regions all over the world to provide heat while reducing demand on gas and electricity from the grid. For a typical household, our solar heating solution can lower annual carbon emissions by approximately 7000kg over its 10 year lifetime while reducing electricity costs to meet hot water needs by 50-80%.
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