Seeding solar lighting among Kenya’s maize farmers
…Group in Kipkenyo, near Eldoret town in Kenya’s Rift Valley. She is one of six innovators in her village who were introduced to solar-powered lanterns barely a month ago, and…
Sunny Money hits record sales through its ‘student lights’ campaign
…will be rolling out more school-based solar lighting promotions in the Iringa and Morogoro regions of Tanzania, with plans to also expand its operations in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia. Using…
Women Entrepreneurs bring solar products to the โlast mileโ in Kenya
…on dangerous and expensive kerosene-based lighting products. When kerosene – or funds to buy it – was in short supply, her family endured total darkness after nightfall. In her search…
Reuters | Solar keeps lights, phones on for rural Kenyans during pandemic blackouts
…not know what I could be using to buy kerosene if I had not installed this solar unit.” With extreme weather and the economic impact of COVID-19 plunging many Kenyans…
Selling Solar to Rural Africa is Emerging as a Hot Market
…invested in Tesla TSLA -6.92% and SolarCity. Other investors in Off Grid Electric included SolarCity itself, Zouk Capital and Vulcan Capital, the fund of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It’s not…
d.light Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Product
…via the mobile payment pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system through M-KOPA Solar. The PAYG system allows customers with low incomes to buy a solar product on credit; the consumer makes an initial…
In the News: In Kenya, A Solar Program Puts “Last-Mile” Consumers First
…says. “I now know how to present myself and the more money I get, the harder I work.” Lighting Africa is part of Lighting Global, a program that supports the…
Putting “Last-Mile” Consumers First in Kenya
…on Business Opportunities Onyong’e launched her microbusiness using Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) a mobile-money platform that lets consumers pay for the products in small installments—making the product affordable across income groups. PAYG…
โLibraryโ of Solar Lights puts pico-PV in the hands of approximately 55,000 rural Senegalese
…exposed to the technology. “It is not safe to buy something you don’t know,” Aliou Ba, father of 5 school children in the Kaolack region in Senegal, part of a…
d.light Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Product
…the mobile payment pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system through M-KOPA Solar. The PAYG system allows customers with low incomes to buy a solar product on credit; the consumer makes an initial deposit…