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3 March 2020
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Greenlight Planet (Nairobi)
Arusha, Tanzania —
Greenlight Planet, the market leader in the rapidly expanding
pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar industry, has successfully delivered clean
and reliable energy access to more than 1.5 million people in Tanzania.
With a strong partner-led and direct distribution network, Greenlight’s
Sun King products are now in more than 300,000 Tanzanian households,
have offset more than 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas, and enabled
more than 70 billion Tanzanian shillings ($30 million) in savings for
customers in Tanzania.
Less than 17
percent of Tanzania’s rural population has access to electricity,
leaving more than 80 percent of rural households in the dark. According
to Tanzania’s Rural Electrification Agency, the government plans to
increase rural household connectivity to 50 percent by 2025 and to 75
percent by 2033. Given the large geographical size of the country and
the dispersed population, off-grid energy is well-positioned to play an
important role in reaching rural populations.
Greenlight Planet
Tanzania, headquartered in Arusha, employs 175 Tanzanians and runs 30
Sun King branch stores throughout the country to make its Sun King
products available in the most under-electrified areas.
Mr. Dhaval Radia, Senior Vice President at Greenlight Planet, who
heads the company’s global commercial businessnotes, “With
pay-as-you-go enabled technology, customers have the option to pay for
their Sun King solar product in small instalments over time helping them
experienc e dramatic improvements in household savings, increased
productivity for their small businesses and additional study-time for
their children. The increased affordability for customers coupled with
our network of nearly 800 sales agents and a range of strategic
distributions partnerships is helping us deliver clean, reliable energy
to the vastly dispersed off-grid population of rural Tanzania.”
Over the last nine
years, Sun King products have contributed significantly to increasing
productivity for Tanzanians, increasing study time for schoolchildren
and generating jobs in rural areas of the country. The company recently
expanded its range to include lifestyle products such as televisions
offering off-grid rural Tanzanians the same entertainment and
information opportunities as their on-grid/urban counterparts. The
company has also recently entered into a partnership with Vodacom
Tanzania that aims to make solar products even more affordable for
off-grid customers.
“In 5 years, we aim
to provide clean energy access to a million households in the country
and still be an organization that positively impacts the Tanzanian
community”, says Mr. Radia.
About Greenlight Planet
Greenlight Planet
has sold over 12 million Sun King™ solar home energy products to
off-grid households around the world. Greenlight Planet reaches remote,
off-grid customers through a unique business model involving a vast
network of micro-entrepreneurs, more than 300 global strategic
distribution partners, and its proprietary EasyBuy (“pay-as-you-go”)
instalment payment technology that makes safe, high-quality solar energy
products affordable for all. Greenlight Planet’s Sun King™ products are
currently installed in 65+ countries and serve more than 50 million
beneficiaries. Find out more at https://www.greenlightplanet.com.
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