Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Mobile payments driving pay-as-you-go PV

East Africa: In January, at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, M-Kopa Solar picked up the Zayed Future Energy Prize in the startup category. M-Kopa Solars Managing Director Jesse Moore shared the award stage with Vice-President Al Gore during which he quipped that the company is likely to return in the large corporation category in a matter of years. Its big talk for a small company, but it is driven by a powerful idea.

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pv magazine

06 Mar 2015

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pv magazine: You’re a startup, at least for now, can you give me the “elevator pitch” for M-Kopa Solar? Jesse Moore: We make solar power affordable to those living off the electricity grid, which means very low-income people in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. We sell solar systems on credit, where the user pays every day …

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