Shell Solar’s Rural Operation Installs 100,000th Solar Home System

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http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsASPR131.htm

Shell Solar’s Rural Operation division celebrates the sale and installation of more than 100,000 Solar Home Systems in just over five years.

Shell Solar is one of the few solar businesses to establish a successful direct sales installation and service channel in areas where communities have access to little or no reliable grid power.

Today Rural Operations is active in India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, China and Indonesia and personnel now numbers more than 900 across the 5 countries. In 2005, Rural Operations projects it will sell and install an additional 40,000 units.

According to Louis van Eijk, Vice-President Sales and Marketing for Shell Solar “Reaching 100,000 systems in just over five years is an unprecedented achievement in the solar industry. Not simply because of its speed and scale of uptake, but because our presence in certain countries has helped to grow rural markets for solar, where the market was either non-existent of very small. Wherever we operate, we seek to develop a local presence, relying on local talent to sell, install, and service systems on a door-to-door basis”.

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[1monster]

1. That's great for those countries, but where do we go here in the US for

solar home systems?

[doodadem]

2. AND be able to get them for the same price

that they're paying for solar systems in India and China!