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Gilbert Ondieki is installing a solar panel from M-Kopaon the roof of his shop in Kangemi, on the outskirtsof Nairobi.
He says having a steady supply of electricity hasmeant more sales, earning more cash for his family.
“Mkopa Solar has really boosted my businessbecause in the past when darkness set in I wouldclose for the day, but now I'm able to work late into the night and close whenever I want to.”
M-Kopa, whose name comes from the Swahili word for "borrow," sells the solar kits for $35-andcustomers then pay 50 cents a day for a year, after which they own their systems.
The kit contains an 8 watt solar panel, two LED bulbs, a rechargeable flashlight, a phonecharger and a rechargeable radio.
MKOPA users pay using their mobile phones making it more efficient to track cost and use.
Jesse Moore is M-Kopa's CEO.“In ten years the rest of the world will look at what leap-froggingtechnologies came out of Kenya and came out of East Africa and I think we will have a situationwhere this part of the world is the role model for others, going off the grid, harnessing thepower of the sun and connecting people reliably, affordably and quickly in a way that's neverbeen done before.”
And business is booming.
Gloria Luchidio is one of more than 200 M-Kopa customer care representatives helping peopleacross East Africa with their solar energy systems.
M-Kopa now has pay-as-you-go customers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
It offers an alternative to traditional power companies such as in Kenya, where only fourmillion households are connected to the national electricity grid in a country of 42 million.
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