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Vaudreuil · Cap-Haïtien · Northern Haiti
Turning waste
into light.
A campus that pays communities to clear their streets, seals the waste safely, and turns its gas — together with the sun — into electricity, with free basic power for every connected home as the goal.
Concept illustration
Only ~1 in 3Haitians are connected to the grid, and even they often get only 4–6 hours of power a day (World Bank, U.S. Commerce Dept.)
$8–10Mpreliminary estimate for the first phase
3 phasesprove it, build it, grow it — each earns the next
0 open burningonly captured, cleaned landfill gas fuels the engines
01 · The idea
Two problems.
One answer.
Bottles, cans and plastic bags fill the streets and canals. At night, whole neighbourhoods go dark. Electrify Haiti turns the first problem into the solution to the second.
Families are paid for the waste they collect. Electric trucks bring it to a campus at Vaudreuil, near Cap-Haïtien. Recyclables are sorted out and sold. What remains is sealed in engineered landfill cells, where it slowly produces methane gas. That gas is captured, cleaned and burned inside engine-generators — and, with a neighbouring solar farm and batteries, becomes electricity for the town.
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02 · Explore the campus
One place.
Connected systems.
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- Residual waste is placed and compacted in a lined cell, then covered daily to keep out rain, odour and pests.
- Vertical wells and pipes draw out the methane that forms as organic waste breaks down without air, and send it to the power plant.
- A clay and plastic (HDPE) liner seals the bottom of every cell. Pipes above it collect the liquid that drains through the waste before it can reach groundwater.
- Collected liquid is stored in tanks and treated on site rather than released into streams.
- The heart of the campus. Gas is cleaned, then burned inside engine-generators to make electricity.
- A neighbouring solar installation supplies power from the first phase, years before the landfill produces enough gas to run engines.
- Transformers send the power out to a local network that connects homes and businesses.
- Metal, plastics and other materials with buyers are pulled out and sold. They do not make gas, so recovering them costs the power plant nothing.
- Eight electric collection trucks, charged at the depot with the campus’s own power, run the collection routes.
- Batteries store daytime solar so the network keeps running after sunset.
- Our own excavators, loaders and bulldozers build each new cell, so the campus can grow without outside contractors.
- New lined cells are prepared before they are needed, so capacity grows in step with collection.
AI-generated concept. Not a photograph, surveyed site or engineering design.
03 · Cash for trash
We pay for
the waste you collect.
Clean streets should be a source of income, not a burden.
Residents, schools and neighbourhood groups bring bagged waste to local collection points and are paid by weight. Electric trucks take it from there. The streets get cleaner, families earn money, and the campus receives the steady supply it needs to make power.
04 · How it works
From the street
to the switch.
- Collect Families are paid by weight; electric trucks run the routes.
- Sort Bottles, cans and plastics are recovered and sold.
- Seal Residual waste goes into a lined, covered landfill cell.
- Capture gas Wells draw out the methane; it is cleaned before use.
- Generate Engine-generators turn the gas into electricity.
- Homes and businesses Free basic allowance for homes; paid service for larger users.
Solar + batteries power the network from the first phase, day and night, while the landfill builds up its gas.
05 · What burns?
Captured gas.
Never trash.
This is not an incinerator and there is no open burning.
The only fuel is landfill gas — mostly methane — drawn from sealed cells and cleaned before it reaches the engines. Burning methane for power keeps it out of the atmosphere, where it would trap far more heat than the carbon dioxide it becomes.
06 · Built to pay for itself
Free basic power.
A business that keeps it running.
After the first investment, the campus is designed to run on its own income — with no further outside funding.
Income
- Paid electricityBusinesses and households that use more than the free allowance
- Connection equipmentMeters, cables and home kits sold at the campus service centre
- Waste-service contractsCollection and disposal for the city, markets and businesses
- Recycling salesPlastic, metal and other recovered materials
- Carbon creditsFor methane captured instead of released
What it pays for
- Free basic powerA household allowance for every connected home
- Cash for trashPayments to families and collectors
- Staff and maintenanceLocal jobs, spare parts, engine servicing
- New landfill cellsBuilt with our own machinery as capacity fills
- Replacement reserveBatteries, trucks and engines when they wear out
The size of the free allowance will be set from real operating numbers in the first phase, so the promise can always be kept.
07 · The result
Lights on
after dark.
Homes that can study, cook and stay safe at night. Shops and workshops that can open longer.
Every connected household receives a basic allowance of electricity. Businesses and larger users pay for what they use, and that income keeps the whole system running.
08 · The roadmap
Prove it. Build it.
Grow it.
Next · First operations
02Build
Launch paid collection, the first lined cells, sorting, and solar electricity with battery storage.
Then · Expansion
03Grow
Add landfill-gas generation once the gas is there, and extend service to more of the town.
Help build the first phase
A brighter Haiti needs
partners who build.
Foundations, development funds, impact investors, engineers and suppliers — we would like to hear from you.