Local company specializes in emergency relief
After working in environmental science and green energy for years, Complete Energy Systems CEO Harvey Katz and his business partner, Claudia Iovino, decided to use their experience to give to those lacking basic human necessities.
The pair formed CES in 2008 in Florida, Katz's native state, before relocating to Pflugerville in November 2011. The company creates small utility trailers that provide energy to people in foreign countries who do not have access to electricity. Each Mobile Power Station, or MPS, is equipped with lighting, refrigeration, water purifiers and cookers and runs on solar and wind energy.
"People who have never seen a light bulb can't believe it, they don't know what [the unit] is," Katz said. "It's a complete system."
CES shipped its first trailer to Zimbabwe in 2010 and is in the process of taking a second unit to the Philippines to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The company works with faith-based organizations such as the Texas Baptist Men's Group and the United Methodist Committee on Relief as well as other non-governmental agencies to take its units throughout the world.
