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Meet the Customers of the Clean Energy Store


Magazen Enèji Pwòp in Les Anglais offers a range of products, and its customers are equally as diverse. Leonie, a woman who cooks at the market, saves US$0.25 in charcoal expenses each day simply because she switched from a standard cookstove to an efficient ‘miracle’ cookstove (Recho Mirak in Haitian Creole) that uses less fuel for the same cooking performance. Taking home an extra US$0.25 per day significantly increases her revenue from her small market stand.

In Okoto, a town about 40 minutes’ drive from Les Anglais, a growing number of Enèji Pwòp customers are using quiet, reliable, and emissions-free solar electricity to light their homes, charge cell phones, and run small appliances. Downtown Okoto may seem a surprising market for the 5-lamp solar home system because the town has a small electricity grid, and many of the households have backup generators.

Nevertheless, the Enèji Pwòp technician finds himself in Okoto frequently for new installations. “The grid electricity is very infrequent,” said one Okoto customer, “and with the solar home system, I don’t need to run my generator as much. It’s very practical.” Many of the solar home systems have been purchased with money sent from friends and family members living outside of Haiti.