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Nov 2025
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Reaching last mile markets togetherThe Global Distributors Collective (GDC) unites and empowers the unsung heroes of development: last mile distributors. These are organisations that bring solar lanterns, clean cookstoves, water filters, nutritional products and other essential items to the hard-to-reach and low-income communities that mainstream markets overlook. |
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Sep 2025
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Bringing power to people, one charge at a timeAfter developing a battery rental service that replaces fossil fuel with solar-generated power, MOPO received TEA support to validate its technology, and enter new markets. MOPO has now passed 28 million battery rentals across sub-Saharan Africa and raised more than £21 million in further investment. |
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Sep 2025
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Reducing post-harvest losses for smallholder farmers through accessible cold storageSolar-powered cold storage supports resilient food systems and limits post-harvest crop losses. With TEA funding, SokoFresh piloted a business model to bring these technologies straight to Kenya’s rural and often off-grid smallholder farmers, reducing spoilage to just 2%. |
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Mar 2021
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Powering up the leading lights in Kenya’s renewables marketIt was one of those experiences that I will never forget!” says Moses, the General Manager for East Africa at off-grid solar system provider SUNami Solar. |
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Feb 2021
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Amplifying women’s voices through research to improve clean energy access solutionsSurveys and data collection across the TEA platform incorporate the perspectives of women who participate in, and benefit from, energy access initiatives and products. |
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Jul 2020
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Local women leading the way on clean energy innovationReduction in managed teams’ turnover, improved personnel performance, pay rises and promotions are just some of the benefits reported by the 85 clean energy companies whose middle management received training through the OGTi. |