Envision Solar Enters into Alliance with Gaia Global SA

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Envi­sion Solar Inter­na­tional, Inc., (OTCBB:EVSI), a lead­ing sus­tain­able infra­struc­ture designer and devel­oper, announces it has entered into an alliance with GAIA Global SA, a Finnish/Swiss Clean­tech and Sus­tain­abil­ity Advi­sory firm with projects world­wide. The part­ner­ship will deliver Envi­sion Solar’s Life­Port® and LifeVil­lage™ inte­grated prod­uct, ser­vice and tech­nol­ogy offer­ings to com­pa­nies, inter­na­tional aid gov­ern­men­tal agen­cies, and other organizations.

“Build­ing on our body of advanced tech­nol­ogy Solar Inte­grated Infra­struc­ture and Build­ing Sys­tems (SIIBS), we orig­i­nally pio­neered the Life­Port®, a mod­u­lar, rapidly-deployable solar build­ing sys­tem specif­i­cally devel­oped to meet the grow­ing demands of home­own­ers whose rooftops were not suited for pho­to­voltaic arrays,” said Robert Noble, CEO of Envi­sion Solar. “How­ever, it quickly became appar­ent to us that such a ver­sa­tile and scal­able sys­tem, with the addi­tion of bat­tery stor­age capa­bil­ity, would be extremely use­ful in devel­op­ing nations and inac­ces­si­ble “off-grid” areas. LifeVil­lages can be deployed to build entire clean energy, self-sufficient com­mu­ni­ties, world­wide, with the unique pos­si­bil­ity of hav­ing a sig­nif­i­cant role in elim­i­nat­ing energy poverty through­out the world.”

Elec­tric­ity is scarce, unre­li­able or unavail­able in many regions of the world, espe­cially in remote areas. With the locally gen­er­ated, clean solar energy that each LifeVil­lage pro­vides the com­mu­nity, refrig­er­a­tion, light­ing, water purifi­ca­tion, cell phone and com­puter charg­ing, WIFI, WIMAX and other valu­able “life elements.”

“LifeVil­lage is a holis­tic con­cept designed with exist­ing clean tech­nol­ogy. It offers a toolkit to basic human needs in rural, less devel­oped or even by dis­as­ter affected regions,” said Swiss-based Gaia Global SA Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Alain Schilli. “The poten­tial is huge: one-fifth of human­ity lives still in the dark, 3 bil­lion peo­ple will need access to renew­able fuels by 2015 and world pop­u­la­tion growth will put more pres­sure on energy or nat­ural resources threat­en­ing long-term eco­nomic devel­op­ment. LifeVil­lage facil­i­tates a dig­ni­fied life for the neglected part of human­ity which is espe­cially affected by these global challenges.”

“Through our alliance with Envi­sion Solar, we are lay­ing the ground work for global out­reach and the real­iza­tion of LifeVillage’s full poten­tial. We are work­ing together on project con­cepts for two show case projects, one in an urban region in an advanced coun­try and another in a devel­op­ing coun­try to be real­ized in 2011. We will be review­ing var­i­ous tech­nolo­gies which are com­pat­i­ble with LifeVil­lage includ­ing advanced water purifi­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies,” con­tin­ued Schilli.

For more infor­ma­tion about Envi­sion Solar and LifeVil­lage™ visit www.envisionsolar.com.

via Envi­sion Solar Enters into Alliance with Gaia Global SA — Yahoo! Finance.