Solar Polar

THE CHALLENGE

In developed coun­tries we place gas heat­ers out­side bars and res­taur­ants to heat cus­tom­ers and at the same time throw hun­dreds of ton­nes of CO2 unne­ces­sar­ily into the atmo­sphere.

In devel­op­ing coun­tries, almost 50% of food grown rots before it reaches the table through lack of elec­tri­city at the farm to refri­ger­ate the crops dur­ing har­vest.

THE SOLUTION

The heat­ing cre­ated by Sol­ar Polar serves two pur­poses;

1)     To elim­in­ate the massive car­bon emis­sions from cur­rent patio heat­ers

2)     To estab­lish Sol­ar Polar in a com­mer­cial pos­i­tion where the com­mer­cial­isa­tion of the  cool­ing tech­no­logy becomes pos­sible.

Sol­ar Polar Lim­ited received £20,000 in the first round of fund­ing to develop their Sol­ar Ter­race Heat­er demon­strat­or pro­ject.

THE STRATEGY

Sol­ar Polar plans to use the grants to develop full-size demon­strat­or units in order to present to poten­tial buy­ers and take to mass-mar­ket.

The com­mer­cial­isa­tion of the heat­ers is the first step in the pro­cess that will gen­er­ate suf­fi­cient funds to com­mer­cial­ise the much big­ger sol­ar cool­ing mar­ket.

The com­pany is already con­trib­ut­ing to the wider Peter­bor­ough eco­nomy by arran­ging most of the parts and assem­blies loc­ally, and they plan to base them­selves with­in Peter­bor­ough once full man­u­fac­tur­ing is under­way.