Close to 2 billion people worldwide are not connected to grid electricity. Most of them will probably never be. This includes over 930 million people in Asia, 550 million in Africa, 45 million in South America, and 40 million in the Middle East. Over a billion more suffer from a chronically unreliable electric grid, resulting in frequent power outages. Driven by the growing electricity demand for basic everyday applications increases among this huge population, and their increasing buying power, off-grid power is expected to grow faster than the grid. Global off-grid electricity is the biggest market for photovoltaics – this is the market focus of Solar Press.

Solar Press modules are being specifically designed for off-grid power applications. The unbeatable module prices we are offering our customers will greatly accelerate the mass uptake of these applications in all geographical markets.

At present, less than 1% of the world’s solar power production has been installed in the developing countries where it is needed the most. This is a consequence of the large capital expenditure required for the production systems and supply chains of the current photovoltaic players. Solar Press products and technology will radically change the photovoltaics industry, making it affordable even for the developing countries. The much lower capital costs of adapting printing and coating systems to the production of Solar Press modules, coupled with the ability to leverage surplus capacity in the global printing and coating industries, will usher in a new era of solar power production and consumption all over the world.