GenPro Energy Solutions heads to Africa to Install Solar Water System at Orphanage

    PIEDMONT, SD, August 22, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Members of the GenPro Energy Solutions Solar and Water Pumping teams will be headed to eManzana Mpumalanga, South Africa to install a solar (PV) energy system and solar irrigation system at an orphanage and macadamia nut farm. Spark Foundation South Africa was founded in 2010 by Mitch and Charlotte Hildebrant of Rapid City, South Dakota to help feed South African children while providing skills training to the local workforce.

"The generosity and kindness of GenPro will impact generations to come." Explains Mitch Hildebrant one of the organizers of Hills Alive and former President of Bethesda Christian Broadcasting. "The government has many problems with their power grid and has now implemented rolling and mandatory power outages for two to three hours each day. The system allows our dreams of operating a 1600 macadamia tree farm and 5 acre vegetable garden in a sustainable fashion. The farm is also used for long term missionary housing, short term volunteer housing, laborers, skills training and the financial output needed to feed 1800 children in the region each day."

Donating renewable energy systems to those in need is not something that is new to GenPro Energy Solutions. "After the earthquake in Haiti we saw a dire need for a water purification system that could be easily transported in disaster relief areas." Says Dwight Patterson, GenPro's CEO. "We designed a system that could be carried by two people and that could purify 720 gallons of drinking water per day. Now these systems are used after natural disasters around the world." In the past year, GenPro has donated systems and equipment to the Thunder Valley Development on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center on Pine Ridge and The House of Hope Orphanage in Haiti.

GenPro Energy Solutions was founded in Rapid City, South Dakota in early 2003 by Dwight Patterson to service the agriculture market with solar-powered remote livestock watering systems. From there GenPro has grown to be one of the largest distributors and integrators of renewable energy systems in the Mid-west. The GenPro team consists of NABCEP, ASES and SEI certified designers and installation professionals. Besides solar energy solutions, GenPro Energy specializes in energy efficient lighting technologies and controls, solar irrigation, power generation and back-up systems. GenPro consults with Municipalities and Utilities throughout North America on how to integrate renewable energy and energy efficient technologies into their current systems.

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