Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire

Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire (ADES) is an NGO and a non-profit organization that produces solar cookers in Madagascar and supports the use of renewable energy sources. It started in Tuléar in the south of Madagascar in 2001. Local production by local people with local material is part of the ADES philosophy.

News and recent developments

• July 2008: Un four solaire ADES sauve 22 tonnes de bois - Madagascar Tribune

• June 2008: TRITEC finances the 1st Solar Village in Madagascar - PresseBox

• March 2007: Regula Ochsner, president of ADES, has been aewarded the international "Women of the Earth Award" by the Yves Rocher Foundation. The award ceremony took place on March 8 2007 at the Institute of France in Paris and was attended by French Minister for the Environment, Nelly Olin, Jacques Rocher, Director of the Yves Rocher Foundation for the environment and Gabriel de Broglie, Chancellor of the Institute of France. Ochsner plans to invest the prize money of €10,000 in a further solar cooker pilot project in the south of Madagascar.

See also

• 2006: Madgascar Solar Cooker Project report
• Heinz Vetter

Contact

Regula Ochsner
Co-President ADES
Lanzenstr. 18
8913 Ottenbach
Switzerland

Tel. 0041/(0)44 761 20 61

patchankaa@yahoo.fr
http://www.adesolaire.org