Solar Stik is a company that makes portable solar energy generators and solar/wind hybrid generators.  In the portable power market, solar and wind has a profound impact on sustained power delivery because the most expensive cost in portable power is transport and storage of fuel.  Solar and wind have no support costs.  One of the benefits to Solar Stik's design is that their versatile systems can power diverse power needs, and are not narrowly designed for specific technologies.  They are easily transportable and can be folded down into boxes that can be checked on an airplane.  These benefits provide the ability to deliver power to remote locations or regions where transportation pathways are compromised.

Pat McArdle is a member of the board of Directors for Solar Cookers International has been working with the STAR-TIDES project from the beginning. A retired Senior Foreign Service Officer with experience in Afghanistan, she has done some incredible work as our Integrated Cooking expert. 

Another interesting development in the Solar world - a nano - bio convergence

Researchers claim photovoltaic cell advance

Amir Ben-Artzi
EE Times Europe
(04/30/2008 7:59 AM EDT)

NETANYA, Israel — Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel claim they have found a way to construct efficient photovoltaic cells costing at least a hundred times less than conventional silicon based devices, and with similar or better energy conversion efficiency.

The Solar Cities project funded through USAID's Small Infrastructures program in Cairo

They call it mini but I am putting it in the micro category.

Handheld wind turbin with battery as well as solar panels.

http://hymini.com/html/HYmini.html

Might be something good to add to the demo kit.