GAM-Solar Energy & Engineering Co. Ltd. is a leading renewable energy and engineering company based in The Gambia since 1998, dedicated to the promotion and marketing of new energy technologies and energy efficiency for sustainable development. The company’s activities are in four different areas: marketing Photo Voltaic (PV) solar electricity systems, solar water pumping, solar water heating systems (SWH) and energy efficiency compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). The company’s experience in The Gambia is the installation and after sales services (maintenance) of some 1000 Solar Home Systems, 38 larger rural village solar water pumping systems (up to 200,000 ltrs/day capacity), and battery bank backup systems for the private sector. Additionally some 550 portable solar lanterns were marketed. GAM-Solar’s activities started when it received a subsidy for a PV pilot project from the Dutch Government (DGIS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) on the basis of a feasibility study conducted by Ecofys Consultants of The Netherlands in 1998. The project was a preparation for a large-scale program for implementation of (rural) solar electrification with the objective to provide household and business electricity through the installation of solar home systems and portable PV lanterns. Implementation of the pilot project was completed in April 2001. Since 2001, GAM-Solar has done major projects with funding from the EU, UN, Japan and other national and international organisations, see solar and water for villages. GAM-Solar Energy employs 25 employees (June 2006).