Solutions & Impact

We help hospitals to acquire high-quality, reliable solar electricity by supporting financial solutions backed by sales of digital renewable energy certificates.

solar installations

Meru Hospital Solar Installation

SHIELD focuses on highly reliable, proven solutions for our solar installations. We preference grid-tied, captive solar that is low maintenance, low cost, and lasts up to 25years. The simplicity of our approach ensures fewer problems while our leasing arrangements ensure that operations and maintenance is ensured.

financing models

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SHIELD has developed an innovative financing model to support installation of solar systems, including through the sale of digital IRECs. IRECs represent the generation of one megawatt hour of renewable electricity and enable corporations to reduce Scope 2 emissions and meet climate targets. Traditional IREC systems are manually processed, costly, and with limited transparency. In partnership with C:Pesa, SHIELD uses a new technology that generates digital IRECs that are verified, time-stamped, traceable, and tradeable on global markets.

  • We work with Africa lenders to ensure leasing arrangements that cut energy costs

  • Sales of high impact renewable energy certificates offer a new layer of funding

  • We can offer much lower costs for more reliable solar energy than local grids

digital REC offerings

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We use unique Carbon Pesa technology (c:pesa.com) to generate a digital version of the IREC called the C:Pesa DIGIREC®. The C:Pesa DIGIRECs® unique technology provides indisputable proof of origin, time of production (down to 15 minutes) and authenticity. Every C:Pesa DIGIREC® is independently verified by ITRACK, the governing body of IRECs, offering buyers greater confidence in the renewable energy’s legitimacy and compliance with global Scope 2 emissions reporting standards.

  • Traceable, timed, digital IRECs

  • Issued immediately, leading to much greater liquidity

  • Allows African hospitals to access this previously distant market

Impact

financial

The costs of solar panels has fallen dramatically over the past years, with many being shocked that we have reached the current price point. Importantly, panels have also become more efficient and longer lasting, with current estimated lifetimes of 25 years.

environmental

SHIELD’s main focus is on social impact and health impact, but the environmental savings should not be understated. Southern African grids rely on coal and as a result, are significant polluters. Botswana is usually thought to be among the 10 dirtiest grids in the world and so solarising their hospitals has a much greater impact than those that can be achieved on cleaner grids.

Anual CO2 Emissions (kg)

health & social

SHIELD’s installations create tangible improvements in energy equity and healthcare delivery — powering systems that serve the most vulnerable communities.

1 hospital
powered

Providing continuous, clean electricity for the catchment of hundreds of thousands of people.

1,300+ medical devices supported

Running safely and reliably on solar power — including cold storage, oxygen concentrators, and diagnostic tools.

400,000+ patients
served Annually

Receiving improved maternal, pediatric, and emergency care thanks to uninterrupted energy access.

430 healthcare
jobs sustained

Maintaining local employment through operational stability and reduced burnout from outages.