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2016: The Tipping Point for Off Grid Solar
Sandhya Hegde, Khosla Impact
With over $250M in debt and equity funding + 4x yoy growth in the off grid solar industry across India and Africa + over 10M households reached - this year is going to be the tipping point for the off grid solar industry. In impact investing, off grid solar is the next microfinance - only better. In this panel, we will talk about what is driving this momentum and what the future is expected to bring with 5 CEOs at the forefront of the industry.
Africa, cleantech, India, off grid, solar
Panel
Not Applicable
Ryan Lenvinson - CEO, Sunfunder
Mansoor Humayun - CEO, Bboxx
Paul Needham - CEO, Simpa Networks
Manoj Sinha - CEO, Husk Power
Xavier Helgesen - CEO, Off Grid Electric
5 Responses
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 4-15
Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting. - JUNE 16-28
Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP16 Content Team. - JUNE 29
Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
I vote for Simpa Networks, for its business model i.e. Affordable Solar Home System available on lease and top of it service facility in which most of the solar industries are lagging.
The option of SIMple PAyment helps many rural families to opt for SIMPLE AFFORDABLE ACCESSIBLE CLEAN ENERGY.
Also not just for selling and providing Solar as Energy option but for Educating peoples in Rural India about how Solar is a better option than the conventional energy source. Which result in areas where SIMPA facilitates,before people not even know what is Solar, Now the actually using solar for house hold & agricultural work and other stuff.
Great initiative for Indian living in dark.
Energy access in its wake creates potential for human development.
A conversation exploring this impact, whats is already real, what is latent and pathways to realizing these transformations would indeed be interesting.
me also vote for simpanetworks to avail the oportunity for modern solar energy in poor households.
I simply vote for the company I currently working for Husk Power Systems.
Logic is simple - I as a Husk Power System team member/employee is very much committed to change the world in a better way from the perturbations of chaos with either the revolutionary ideas on off-grid solar designs or other ideas.
- A Bohemian approach rotating some degree to achieve stabilization!