Zero-X Impact · Film two

Power for a Billion

Rural electrification and refugee camps, from the waste they already have.

A refugee camp of white tents in dry land
The film
Power for a Billion · 2:03
Produced by EXOS.
The challenge

When night falls

Hundreds of millions of people still live with no electricity at all, and many more cannot rely on the power they have. Clinics work by torchlight. Refugee camps run on diesel trucked in at great cost and firewood carried for hours from land that no longer has trees. And all the while, the fuel is already there: camp waste, crop residue and brushwood, burned in the open.

Nearly 1 billion people

are served by health facilities without reliable electricity.

~750 million people

still live with no electricity at all.

A kerosene lamp burning in a home without electricity
Kerosene light
The inside of a clinic lit by a torch
Clinics in the dark
A woman carrying firewood across dry land
Firewood carried for hours
Diesel drums delivered by truck to a camp
Diesel, trucked in
The solution

Bring the machine to the fuel

The Jenja container arriving on a truckJenja being installed on site
01
It arrives

Jenja comes by truck and is installed in about a week.

Local operators trained on site at the plant
02
Local operation

Run by people from the camp, trained on site, with remote support day and night.

A water pump running on power from the plant
03
Water

Pumps run.

A clinic lit and running a vaccine fridge
04
Clinics

Lights on, vaccines cold.

A village street lit after darkA village with power from its own waste
05
Streets and villages

Safe streets after dark, and power villages can afford.

In one line

Power where people need it most. From what they already have.

A lit village at night in dry land

Power where people need it most.

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