Low-income homes
Electricity for everyday life
Reliable power for lighting, phone charging, learning, communication and household comfort.
Less dependence on kerosene and generators
OUR IMPACT
We measure electricity by what people can do with it.
Energy access becomes meaningful when a business can stay open, a family spends less on fuel, a child can study at night, or a health facility can keep essential services running.
BEYOND THE CONNECTION
A connection is only the beginning.
Installing an energy system is not the impact. The impact is what happens afterwards.
We look at how electricity affects income, operating hours, household expenses, healthcare delivery, learning, communication and the ability of people to participate in the digital economy.
2,700+
Energy systems
Distributed energy systems represented across our growing operating network.
200+
Community points
Rural communities and deployment clusters represented across active areas.
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Primary use cases
Homes, micro-businesses and essential community facilities.
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Energy opportunity
Electricity designed to remain useful beyond daylight and generator availability.
VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
Impact is better heard from the people living it.
Our users experience energy access in practical ways: less money spent on fuel, longer productive hours, better lighting and more reliable access to the services they depend on.
Watch a testimony from one of the communities reached through our decentralized energy work.
WHAT ENERGY CHANGES
Reliable electricity creates a chain of outcomes.
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Reliable energy
Electricity becomes available closer to the people who need it.
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Lower fuel dependence
Homes and businesses can reduce reliance on petrol generators and kerosene.
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More useful hours
Activities that previously ended with power outages can continue.
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More opportunity
Energy supports business, learning, healthcare, communication and digital access.
ENERGY IN REAL LIFE
The same electricity creates different kinds of impact.
The value of energy depends on what the person connected to it needs to accomplish.
Micro-businesses
Electricity for livelihoods
Energy for tools, lighting, refrigeration, charging and other productive activities that generate income.
More productive operating hours
Healthcare
Electricity for essential services
Reliable energy for lighting, communications, refrigeration and healthcare activities.
More reliable service after dark
PRODUCTIVE ENERGY
When electricity works, businesses can work too.
For a small business, unreliable energy directly affects revenue. Equipment sits idle, customers leave and money is spent buying fuel instead of growing the business.
Decentralized electricity can turn those lost hours into productive time.
Longer hours
Businesses can continue operating beyond outages.
Lower fuel cost
Less recurring spending on petrol.
More equipment use
Tools can remain productive for longer periods.
Digital opportunity
Power supports phones, payments and connected services.
HOUSEHOLD IMPACT
Energy access changes the hours people once lost to darkness.
Electricity can support activities that are easy to take for granted where reliable grids exist: charging a phone, reading at night, watching educational content, running a fan or simply moving safely around the home after dark.
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Lighting after sunset
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Phone charging and communication
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Study and digital learning
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Household entertainment
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Reduced generator and kerosene use
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
Some electricity is not convenience. It is essential infrastructure.
A rural health facility may need electricity for lighting, vaccine refrigeration, communications, digital records and emergency care.
Reliable decentralized energy can keep these services available in places where conventional infrastructure cannot provide dependable electricity.
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Night-time lighting
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Vaccine and medicine refrigeration
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Communication equipment
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Emergency response
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Digital health services
CLEANER ENERGY
Less generator dependence means more than lower electricity cost.
Petrol and diesel generators do more than cost money. They produce noise, local air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions close to the people using them.
Every hour that clean decentralized electricity replaces generator use can reduce fuel consumption and pollution at the point where people live and work.
Less fuel burned
Solar generation reduces the need to run petrol and diesel generators for everyday electricity.
Cleaner local environment
Less generator use means reduced exhaust, noise and fuel handling around homes and businesses.
Circular energy
Recovering useful components extends material value and reduces unnecessary solar and battery waste.
CIRCULAR IMPACT
Extending the value of energy materials.
The growth of solar energy will also create growing volumes of batteries, electronics and other components that eventually reach the end of their first use.
Our circular approach focuses on recovering suitable components, testing them and returning safe usable value to the energy-access system where appropriate.
See How Our Circular Model Works →Waste → Recovery → Energy
IMPACT INTELLIGENCE
We want to know what happens after deployment.
Counting installations is useful, but it does not tell us whether a system is still working, whether the customer is saving money or whether electricity is creating meaningful economic value.
Digital monitoring allows us to move toward impact measurement based on system performance and actual energy use.
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System uptime
Understand whether deployed systems remain operational.
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Energy consumption
Understand how customers are actually using electricity.
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Battery condition
Track the health of critical energy-storage assets.
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Productive use
Identify energy being used for income-generating activities.
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Customer continuity
Understand whether the energy service remains useful and affordable.
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Maintenance
Understand faults, intervention needs and long-term asset performance.
FROM IMPACT TO INTELLIGENCE
Every connection can become part of a visible energy network.
Our Energy Intelligence platform brings distributed installations into one operating view, connecting location, customer, system and performance information.
Open Energy Intelligence →Live Energy Network
2,700+
Connected system network
OUR IMPACT APPROACH
We do not want to count only systems. We want to understand outcomes.
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Energy access
Who gained access to reliable electricity and what type of user received the connection?
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Affordability
How does the user's electricity spending change after receiving the system?
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Reliability
Is the system still operating, and how frequently does it require maintenance?
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Economic activity
Does electricity increase productive hours, enable new equipment or support business growth?
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Social outcomes
How does electricity affect learning, healthcare, communication and daily household life?
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Environmental change
How much generator and kerosene use has been displaced, and what materials have been recovered or reused?
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