Development follows electricity.
A clinic without power cannot refrigerate vaccines. A school without power cannot teach with computers. A business without power cannot grow, hire or compete. Across much of the region, the conversation about development begins and ends at the same point.
The same model that serves a factory can serve a community.
Distributed energy changed what is possible. A remote place no longer has to wait for a national grid to reach it — generation, storage and control can be built where the need is, at the scale the need requires.
What has almost always been missing is not the technology. It is someone willing to finance the asset, operate it for twenty years and answer the phone when something fails — precisely the capability Andara is building for its commercial customers.
Our position is simple: if we build that capability, we have an obligation to direct part of it toward places where the return is not measured only in money.
Four commitments that apply in every market where we operate.
Andara is a platform under development. These commitments define how the community programme will be designed from the outset — not how it will be added later.
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Allocate capacity, not leftovers
A defined share of the capacity Andara deploys each year will be directed to community installations, funded by the platform rather than dependent on one-off donations. A commitment that is budgeted gets honoured; one that depends on how the year went does not.
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Prioritise essential infrastructure
Rural clinics and health centres, schools, water pumping and treatment, hurricane shelters and community centres. Facilities where losing power has immediate consequences for people's lives.
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Operate it, not just install it
The region is full of donated systems that stopped working within two years because no one was responsible for maintaining them. Every Andara community system enters the same monitoring and maintenance programme as the commercial assets.
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Train local people
Every market we enter needs technicians, electricians and installers. We commit to training and hiring locally, and to leaving technical knowledge in the community after the installation crew has gone.
To the same standard we apply to a paying customer.
The most common failure in community energy projects is treating them as a gesture rather than as infrastructure. We will design, execute and maintain them using the same process as any other asset in the portfolio.
Local partnership
We will work with local authorities, community organisations, cooperatives, health and education institutions and development agencies. The community defines the priority; we bring the engineering, equipment and operation.
What we will install
- Solar generation sized to the facility's actual use.
- Battery storage to operate at night and through grid outages.
- Control and remote monitoring, so we know whether the system is working without travelling to see it.
- Electrical infrastructure upgrades where needed to make the system safe.
- Training for the local personnel who live with the system every day.
How we will measure it
- Capacity installed and energy delivered to community facilities.
- System availability, reported with the same rigour as to a commercial customer.
- Operating hours recovered at facilities that previously depended on an intermittent grid.
- People trained and hired locally in each market.
We will publish these figures. A commitment that is not measured is not a commitment.
Andara is a platform under development. We have not yet completed acquisitions or community installations. This page describes how the programme will be designed and what we are committing to — not what we have already done. We would rather be measured by what we publish later than by what we promise now.
If you know a community that needs reliable power, we want to hear about it.
We are building the priority list for our first markets. Local authorities, community organisations, health and education institutions and development agencies — get in touch.