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Solar Powered Cold Storage Provides Relief During Humanitarian and Natural Disasters

Renewable Energy World: A 50-year old company has a solution to provide clean drinking water and power for regions that were hard-hit by the hurricanes last fall. Aldelano Solar Cold Chain solutions is providing off-grid refrigeration, water generation and power generation equipment to Antiqua, Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands.

The company’s products, SolarColdBox, Solar Chiller, SolarWaterMaker and SolarPowerPak are made in the U.S. and use the power of the sun to provide cold water and cold storage in a portable, modular solution.

Countries that are facing a humanitarian crisis are also using its solutions. The company told Renewable Energy World that its boxes are used for ongoing humanitarian purposes in underdeveloped areas to combat sickness and disease, to reduce post-harvest losses, which can be as high as 40 – 60 percent, and to provide independence to a location or community by putting them in control of their own resources.

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