Kenya by Phaesun GmbH was named as finalist of the The smarter E AWARD 2025 in the Category "Oustanding Projects" for the application BeCool: Clean cooling for markets.
Solar-powered cold storage rooms provide marketplace distributors on Lake Victoria with the opportunity to protect their agricultural products against high temperatures. Conventional cooling methods are hard to come by due to a lack of infrastructure and insufficient power supply. So this renewable solution, which is available on a rental basis, offers even small market players and farmers access to cooling without the need to make investments of their own. They gain access to cooling devices via a Cooling-as-a-Service model (CaaS), whereby individual boxes in the cold store are rented out to market distributors. The CaaS model is organized via a dedicated app. The shaded cold storage rooms, which are manufactured on site in Kenya, feature a built-in photovoltaic installation that powers a self-chill ice storage system. This system uses a natural refrigerant, recycled materials, renewable raw materials and pre-cooling via charcoal water evaporation.
Kenya by Phaesun GmbH
Brühlweg 9
87700 Memmingen
Germany
Exhibitor at Intersolar Europe 2025
Booth A4.233