Eight19 and The Un Grid
The off grid market continues to expand and attract innovative new business and financial models aimed at delivering energy access for the poor. One of the most recent, Eight19 Ltd., made a splash with an article in The Economist explaining their pay-as-you-go “energy escalator” business model (seen in the graphic above). We sat down with [...]
Pay-as-you-go: Simpa’s Radical Affordability Solution
There are now 48 million people worldwide who have a mobile phone, but no connection to the grid. These un-electrified, mobile phone users are expected to increase to 138 million by 2015 marking the intersection between mobile phone and off-grid lighting technology that is spawning a number of innovations shaping the future of rural electrification [...]
Biogas Fuels Big Ambitions
“Give us things that will help us run engines with local resources. Diesel and petrol prices are killing us farmers,” said Ram Karan. I sat listening intently to him at his farm on the very fringes of Ranthambore National Park. The majority of farmers here who do not have access to electricity spend anywhere between Rs. 15,000 [...]