Research shows SMEs working to fulfill the energy needs of the 1.3 billion people who live off the grid, are finding investment hard to secure
There’s a growing buzz about the potential for business to fill the huge energy gap across the developing world, where 1.3 billion people live without grid electricity and a staggering 3 billion people cook on open fires or dirty cookstoves.
Pioneering small and medium-sized energy enterprises, that sell simple products like solar lanterns and cleaner cookstoves to low-income communities, are offering new hope that this huge global problem could one day be solved.