HARRISONBURG,
VA. (October 27, 2015)—SUNRNR of Virginia, Inc., a Shenandoah
Valley-based portable solar+storage generator company, is making
news in areas hit hard by weather events,
particularly during the 2015 hurricane season. Crooked Island in the southern
Bahamas islands received a SUNRNR (SunRunner), temporarily donated by
distributor CleanWaterSolutions,
to provide power at the Colonel Hill airport terminal where a
makeshift health clinic was set up following Hurricane Joaquin. The SUNRNR will
provide lighting and critical refrigeration for medical supplies like insulin.
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SUNRNR has made significant progress towards
expanding the export of the locally manufactured portable units in recent
months. After participating in a White House briefing with President Obama and
senior Administration officials during a Small
Business Exporters Roundtable in March, and being the
featured company from Virginia in a joint project of the Office of US Trade Representative
and the Department of Commerce titled “United States of Trade: 50 Stories in 50 States
that Show the Impact of Trade Across the Nation,” SUNRNR is positioned to add more countries like
the Bahamas to the existing list of Canada, Japan and several African countries
they have been servicing.
Working with the Virginia/DC District Export Council
along with the Virginia
Economic Development Partnership, the company’s
president is scheduled to attend a trade mission trip to Spain’s Canary Islands
off the coast of West Africa Nov 16-20. SUNRNR applied for and was selected to join the trade mission aimed at helping U.S. firms in the
energy, environmental technologies, industrial equipment and supplies, infrastructure and logistics sectors find
partners from the Canary Islands and other regions of Spain to sell products
and services in West Africa. Companies participating in the trip will also
learn about the advantages of setting up an operation in the Canary Islands to
pursue opportunities in West Africa. This trip fits hand-in-hand with Governor
McAuliffe’s new VITAL
program, the Virginia STEP grant,
and the Obama Administration’s Doing
Business in Africa and Power
Africa initiatives.
In addition to the devastation from Hurricane
Joaquin, severe weather events worldwide such as #HurricanePatricia
and #TyphoonKoppu emphasize
a growing need for alternative power options around the world. The Canaries
have faced a number of severe weather events as well, the most recent
causing wide-spread school closures due to flash flooding from torrential rain.
SUNRNR could provide important emergency power supplies during times of natural
disaster in remote locations.
Information about SUNRNR products can be found
at www.sunrnr.com
or by contacting Jenny French at jennyf@sunrnr.com
or Scott French at scottf@sunrnr.com,
540.271.3403.
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