Job Title: Director of Technical Operations The Opportunity Can you imagine what life would be like without reliable access to electricity? Imagine studying by kerosene lamp, cooking on an open fire, not being able to charge your cell phone. Imagine spending 40% of your salary on electricity substitutes. Lack of access to energy causes millions [...]
Power Leone is hiring a driven, team player and good communicator person who has a demonstrated track record in customers facing or for the position of Junior Community Manager based in Port Loko District. The candidate will assist the lead Community Manager of the District to deliver our customer services, with responsibility for supporting customers [...]
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – June 23, 2020 - Energicity Corp, the developer and operator of microgrid utilities in West Africa, announced today that it has closed on a $3.25M seed investment, led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF). This round of funding follows an earlier investment by Treehouse Investments, which closed in November 2016. Founded in [...]
Abena Apam had a problem. Business was down. Sales were slow. No one, it seemed, wanted to buy her soft drinks, bottled water, or other goods. Why? With no electricity, Abena could not keep her products cold. Her customers, villagers and workers in the small cocoa farming community of Katapie, in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, wanted [...]
On the 23rd of November 2018, a prize-giving ceremony was held in Paris to reward the four winners of the second EDF Pulse Africa competition, the purpose of which is to identify and support African innovators committed to growing the continent’s energy sector. Having attracted 4 times more entries than last year, EDF Pulse Africa [...]
Black Star Energy Ltd. provides affordable, sustainable electricity to the 125 residents of Affulkrom for the first time in their lives. 1.3 billion people do not have access to grid-powered electricity and an additional 700 million do not have reliable electricity to support their daily lives. The people of Affulkrom are no longer amongst this 2 [...]
