Midsummer Energy’s marathon fundraiser helps repower hospital in Ukraine

Midsummer Energy completed its fundraising challenge to run 1,900 miles in a month two days early.

Midsummer and Photon Energy have been working to fund a 36.5kW solar PV/battery system for Slobozhanske Hospital in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

By providing relatively small PV systems with 30-40kWh of battery storage, it means electricity can be provided to ICUs, maternity units and monitoring equipment during the power cuts.

Runners from Midsummer’s Cambridge and Glasgow branches clocked up the miles morning, noon and night, with every lunchtime mile and occasional weekend marathon adding to the total.

John Norman, head of marketing said: “The sheer scale of the challenge started to dawn on us in the second week but some favourable autumn weather kept our team on the road. We have a couple of marathon runners but the majority are evening joggers or Parkrun weekenders.

“With four days remaining we were tantalisingly close until one of our lunchtime runners powered home with a 5 mile run, tipping the total to 1,903 miles.”

The distance was the equivalent of running from the team’s UK head office in Cambridge to Slobozhanske Hospital in Ukraine.

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