NETHERLANDS, November 18 –
News item | 18-11-2022 | 09:00
Working for a pharmaceutical company in the 1980s, pharmacist Bolade Soremekun went in search of a source of energy to keep medicines and vaccines cool. ‘I discovered that solar energy was by far the best way to escape dependency on diesel and polluting generators,’ he says. ‘A new world of possibilities opened up for me. I never looked back.’ Bolade founded one of Nigeria’s first solar energy companies.
Through his Rubitec Solar Academy Bolade also trains professionals, thus increasing the knowledge and capacity of his country’s solar energy industry. What’s more, he is part of the new Dutch-Nigerian RenewableTechNigeria impact cluster, which was launched at the Netherlands…