Location: Online

Inspiring Global Citizenship with Solar Lights for Schools AND Helping Cities Renew their Energy

About this event

Join us for our latest one hour webinar, introduced by Future South Chair Ben Earl.

Namene Solar and Absolar will present solutions that have a Global Impact as well as one that is working now in a Hampshire City

Our speakers today are Francesca Shirley of Namene Solar and Phil Wu of Absolar (winners of the prestigious David Green Award)

Namene Solar's International Schools Programme centres around a Build One; Give One activity which sees students build their solar light in class, with an additional light donated to their peers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Educating students about solar energy, the need to help young people in extreme poverty live in a learning environment, and how to minimise their carbon footprints to tackle the injustice of climate change and safeguard the future.

Absolar use their award winning Artificial Intelligence system to calculate the energy that can be harvested from the rooftops in any City.This helps to reduce carbon emissions as well as providing a secure and cheaper energy source for citizens.

Bios:

Francesca graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc in Optics and Photonics. She is a published co-author of a paper investigating plasmonic techniques to enhance the efficiency of thin-film solar cells. However, her plans to continue research through a PhD to help improve the efficiency of solar PV changed while travelling in Africa and Asia.

Francesca has been working at Namene Solar since November 2019, creating and delivering activities to help young people access the tools and knowledge they need to ensure a prosperous future. She recently received nominations for the World CleanTech Award for the Visionary CleanTech Educator and Visionary CleanTech Influencers

Phil has a PhD from Southampton University in Energy and Climate Change. He is the CEO of Absolar.