In this episode: Shedding light on selling solar in Africa at the last mile (and what is the “last mile” anyway)?
Households and businesses across Africa can now plug into renewable electricity with low-cost solar home systems. In this episode, co-hosts Akoji John and Patrick Guyer talk with a solar entrepreneur and Bopinc experts to find out what we’re learning about how this sector is evolving across Africa and what we’re learning about marketing and distributing solar home systems to low-income consumers. We hear about new developments in the sector, best-practices from Bopinc projects and how off-grid solar can be a part of connecting African households to affordable and reliable electricity from a renewable source.
Interested to learn more?
- Here are more details on the UN statistics on Sustainable Development Goals and Goal 7 on access to sustainable electricity
- We spoke to Alviol General Trading, an Ethiopian enterprise committed to providing clean and affordable lighting solutions for rural communities, which is an investee of Innovations Against Poverty (IAP). IAP is a partnership, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), managed by SNV in collaboration with Bopinc and Inclusive Business Sweden.
- Read more about Bopinc’s D2D Pro project in Nigeria, which focused on increasing the income of door-to-door female sales agents. D2D Pro was a partnership between Bopinc, Greenlight Planet, Angazal, Innovectives and TRANSFORM. TRANSFORM is a joint initiative of Unilever, the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and EY.
- And find out more about the Lighting the Last Mile project, supported by USAID and Ranlab (Resilient Africa Network).
- Here’s an innovative example of non-cash payments for pay-as-you-go renewable electricity.
- Explore our approach and our projects on the Bopinc website.