Clean Energy, Solar Entrepreneurship, Climate Action
In Sub-Saharan Africa, over 630 million people live without access to electricity.
In Kenya, an estimated 65% of households lack electricity and rural homes are subjected to the use of harmful kerosene lamps, as a source of household lighting.
Konservation’s Women and Energy project works to reduce energy poverty in rural communities by increasing access to solar lighting. With a solar retail outlet in a regional town, we establish a reliable supply chain of solar lamps by partnering with local women entrepreneurs and women groups in south-west Kenya, who market and retail the technologies, and ensure that lamps are readily available in local markets and town centers.
Through our business model, our agents sell the lamps we distribute at a retail price to secure a reliable income while lighting up their own rural villages.
With the right infrastructure, it is estimated that half of all electricity from Southern and Eastern Africa could come from clean cost-effective renewables by 2030. Through our business model, our agents sell the lamps we distribute at a retail price to secure a reliable income while lighting up their own rural villages.
Women entrepreneurs, situated across numerous villages in Kenya, can be the last mile agents in the distribution of clean technologies, and we leverage that to fight energy poverty.
