News

24 Jun 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Zero Emissions Utility (ZERO) Workshop

How can humanitarian operations become more resilient while cutting costs and emissions? The A2EI, the GPA Secretariat, and The Carbon Trust met for a workshop…

24 Jun 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Data release: Effect of AC loads on Solar Generators

Following our Technical Note Issue 02 and webinar the A2EI now shares the full dataset as an interactive notebook, free for anyone to explore…

17 Jun 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Solar Switch Webinar: Start selling Solar Generators!

Join our webinar – GGF and the Access to Energy Institute will present the Solar Switch program, which supports companies to start selling solar generators…

16 Apr 2026 · Announcement · Archived

GGF ignites strong interest at Nairobi meetups

Great turnout and interesting discussions at the GGF Networking Breakfast and the Last Mile Distribution Forum in Nairobi…

7 Apr 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect to monitor clean cooking devices for 500k households in the DRC

Prospect will verify and collect sales and usage data, harmonize and aggregate it, and provide near real-time monitoring…

26 Feb 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Technical Note #2 – Effect of AC Loads on Solar Generators

How can we prevent high failure rates of solar generators caused by AC loads? Issue 02 of our Technical Note is out!

25 Jan 2026 · Announcement · Archived

New report on fossil fuel generator insights for Nigeria

A new report by the Access to Energy Institute, Open Capital, and ZE-Gen highlights critical insights into replacing fossil fuel generators in Nigeria…

16 Jan 2026 · Announcement · Archived

Research collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology

The A2EI has started a cooperation to promote research on the topic of energy access in Sub Saharan Africa…

2 Jan 2026 · Announcement · Archived

2025 – year in review

As we approach the end of 2025, we wish to extend a sincere thank-you to our growing community of colleagues, partners, and supporters…

28 Nov 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect officially recognised as a digital public good

We are proud that Prospect has officially been recognised as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance…

30 Oct 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect bridging the “bankable data gap”

Across Africa’s fast-growing energy landscape, decision-makers face a persistent challenge: fragmented and unreliable data…

9 Oct 2025 · Announcement · Archived

COMESA adopting Prospect for ASCENT program

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa adopted Prospect as its dMRV platform…

3 Oct 2025 · Announcement · Archived

New report on clean cooking in Uganda

The report “Findings from a Study on the Adoption of Electric Pressure Cookers in Uganda” involved gathering data from 500 households…

3 Oct 2025 · Announcement · Archived

GGF – results-based inventory financing taking off

Check out our video highlighting how GGF provides inventory financing to well-performing solar companies…

26 Sept 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect launched as dMRV platform for Tanzania rural electrification program

Over the past months, the Prospect team has customized the platform to meet TREEP’s specific needs and facilitated onboarding of all key stakeholders…

29 Aug 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect adopted by Burundi`s FESEC

This week, we conducted a successful training session to prepare for the launch of Prospect’s RBF instance for the FESEC Project in Burundi…

13 Aug 2025 · Announcement · Archived

€6m ZE-Gen grant for GGF to power up disruptive climate finance

We are excited about GGF’s transformative collaboration with ZE-Gen…

1 Aug 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Launch of Prospects public dashboard

We’re excited to announce the soft launch of ProspectStats!

25 Jun 2025 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI at London Climate Action Week

Insightful discussions on how to replace millions of polluting, expensive fossil fuel generators…

16 Jun 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect at Innovate4Climate

At Innovate4Climate, we showcased how Prospect promotes inclusive climate finance…

12 Jun 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Celebrating GGF’s first anniversary

This week marks a great milestone: GGF’s first anniversary!

10 Jun 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Assisting healthcare electrification in Nigeria with dMRV

We are pleased about Prospect’s continuing role as a dMRV tool for healthcare electrification…

5 May 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect training in Malawi for the Ngwee Ngwee Ngwee Fund

We had a successful Prospect training session for stakeholders involved in the Malawi Electricity Access Project…

16 Apr 2025 · Announcement · Archived

RBF Workshop

The A2EI convened a group of RBF practitioners to discuss best practices in RBF programs for a 2 day workshop…

13 Feb 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect to monitor EU Delegation to Nigeria electrification efforts

We were delighted to see Prospect presented at the official launch of GET.invest Nigeria…

5 Feb 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Leveraging Prospect to Energize Healthcare

Engaging discussions at the Energizing Healthcare conference in Nairobi…

4 Feb 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Join the Prospect research webinar!

Are you a ZE-Gen Accelerator stakeholder interested in learning more about Prospect’s features…

3 Jan 2025 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI at the Africa Energy Summit

We enjoyed inspiring discussions with African government officials, development partners, and private sector…

2 Jan 2025 · Announcement · Archived

Year in Review 2024

As we have approached the end of 2024, it’s time for us to reflect on the past year amidst the dynamic changes in our industry…

18 Nov 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Empowering Primary Health Centers in Nigeria

A2EI, Nigerian solar distributor Chromevolt, and HETA have joined hands to empower 75 Nigerian PHCs…

1 Nov 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect is live as the dMRV platform for UECCC´s RBF program

We are excited to announce that, as of November 1st, Prospect has gone live as the dMRV platform for UECCC…

14 Oct 2024 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI at GOGSFE24 in Nairobi

The A2EI team just returned from the Global Off Grid Solar Forum and Expo 2024 in Nairobi, inspired and energized…

26 Aug 2024 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI at Innovate for Climate in Berlin

We had enriching discussions on advancing climate action across finance, markets, policy, and technology at Innovate for Climate in Berlin…

24 Jul 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Call for Proposals: Electric Cooking Phone Survey in Kenya

A2EI seeking a local firm to conduct a phone survey with up to 3000 households in Kenya…

20 Jul 2024 · Announcement · Archived

HETA/Power Africa visit to solar powered health centers in Nigeria

We’re excited about the swift progress being made by our initiative to empower healthcare in Nigeria…

15 Jul 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Short paper on the Impact-Survey-Bot & Data Collection in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Impact-Survey-Bot is a WhatsApp/Telegram chatbot for conducting surveys and data forms, developed by A2EI, and used by A2EI and various partners in research…

28 Jun 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Women in Tech / in-country Prospect consultant programme

Prospect is looking for IT customer service experts to join its “Women in Tech / in-country Prospect consultant” programme…

25 May 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect – UECCC training workshop for Ugandan energy service companies

We are making clear progress toward the implementation of the open source data platform Prospect as part of UECCC´s Electricity Access Scale-up Project…

13 May 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Jennifer Morgan visit at solar powered healthcare facility in Nigeria

We were pleased to host State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action Jennifer Morgan from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany for the visit of a primary healthcare facility in Lagos…

3 May 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Prospect and A2EI at Open Source in Energy Access Symposium in Abuja

We had the pleasure of exchange between developers, industry leaders, and diverse stakeholders at the first ever Open Source in Energy Access Symposium in Abuja…

23 Apr 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Sierra Leone Healthcare Electrification Project

We’re excited to support the Sierra Leone Healthcare Electrification Project and SEforALL’s efforts to bring clean energy access to hospitals!

3 Apr 2024 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI solar generator workshop in Nigeria

A huge thank-you to everyone who made our 2-day deep dive into how to replace the millions of dirty fuel generators in Nigeria with clean solar solutions a success!

31 Mar 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Signing of Prospect implementation agreement with UECCC

We’re excited to have signed an implementation agreement with the Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company…

21 Mar 2024 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI at Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue

We’re glad to have been part of the Berlin Energy Transition dialogue 2024, entering its 10th edition this year!

14 Mar 2024 · Announcement · Archived

Official Launch of Green Genset Facility

The Green Genset Facility (GGF) has officially been launched at the Transforming Energy Access Forum 2024 in Kigali…

29 Dec 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Summary 2023 | Wishing you a peaceful, happy, and healthy 2024!

With 2023 coming to an end we would like to have a joint look back at the year and what it meant to the A2EI…

8 Dec 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Report on Electric Cooking by IRENA & A2EI Launched at COP

A new report on electric cooking written by authors at A2EI and the International Renewable Energy Agency was announced this week at COP28 at a high-level panel…

13 Nov 2023 · Announcement · Archived

New report on using electric pressure cookers in Kigali, Rwanda

A2EI recently supported a study led by SEforAll and Nexleaf Analytics on the adoption of electric pressure cookers in Kigali, Rwanda…

10 Oct 2023 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI celebrates its 5th anniversary!

It has been a great pleasure and privilege to shape the A2EI over the past five years, together with many of you – team members, friends, and supporters…

6 Oct 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Chromevolt CSR project to power Dutse Healthcare Center

Excellent initiative by our Nigerian partner Chromevolt: They electrified Dutse Makaranta Primary Healthcare Center in the suburbs of Abuja, Nigeria…

18 Sept 2023 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI workshop series on collective approaches to achieving SDG7

We will be hosting a series of workshops to brainstorm collective approaches to tackling some of the most pressing challenges on the road to achieving SDG7…

11 Jul 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Live webinar on Cicada

The A2EI, together with The EnAccess Foundation and Okra Solar, invite you to join the live webinar to learn about Cicada: the Open Source IoT Comms Module…

28 May 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Solar Generator Working Capital Facility

Three years ago, at the Access to Energy Institute, we embarked on a mission to help Nigerians get rid of millions of small fossil fuel generators…

28 Mar 2023 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI Data Supports Clean Electric Cooking

Is it possible to replace charcoal and biomass cooking by clean e-cooking – avoiding deforestation, household air pollution, and massive carbon emissions?

6 Feb 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Project Update: Solar4Clinics Benin

Within our Solar4Clinics project, we monitored the energy consumption of health facilities in Benin and analyzed the data to determine standard load profiles…

16 Jan 2023 · Announcement · Archived

Call For Bids: Electric Cooking Research Project in Uganda

A2EI is seeking a local partner to implement a research project on electric cooking conducted over 18 months with 500 households in the greater Kampala metropolitan area…

23 Dec 2022 · Announcement · Archived

Summary 2022 | Wishing you a happy, healthy, and successful New Year!

We at the A2EI wish you – our fellow colleagues, friends, and supporters – Happy Holidays, and all the very best for 2023!

11 Nov 2022 · Announcement · Archived

COP27: A2EI Pledges to Electrify 100 Health Clinics with its Solar Generator

A2EI has announced its pledge to electrify 100 health clinics on the African continent during COP27 in Egypt in support of the HETA initiative…

21 Oct 2022 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI, Odyssey & GBE collaborate to remotely monitor healthcare infrastructure electrification in Benin

The A2EI, Odyssey Energy Solutions and Green People’s Energy (GBE) have partnered to monitor the state of electricity access at health centres in Benin, and to gather the necessary data to monitor systems and thus ensure their longevity…

17 Oct 2022 · Announcement · Archived

GET.invest and A2EI Launch Global Open-Source Data Platform PROSPECT

A2EI and GET.invest officially launched Prospect – a data platform that radically optimizes real-time data collection, analysis, and visualisation to support sustainable energy stakeholders in providing affordable and clean energy access for all…

16 Oct 2022 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI Unlocks Further Access to Energy Through the OpenPAYGO Token

We’re excited to announce our collaboration with Solaris Offgrid. A2EI has recently adopted the OpenPAYGO™ Token to boost our mission of unlocking innovative solar products for unbanked communities in Sub-Saharan Africa…

13 Jul 2022 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI Releases AAM Connect Smartphone App

The A2EI has released AAM Connect, a smartphone app that enables customers to monitor their solar system’s performance and track the live status of their AAM hybrid solar generator…

6 Apr 2022 · Announcement · Archived

SKGS Project Update & Data Release Report

Two years after our first solar generator entered the Nigerian market, we have made the 3rd generation solar generator available, sold over 1,000 to local distributors, and are able to share millions of data points with the sector as open source data…

10 Jan 2022 · Announcement · Archived

WEBINAR: #StopGuessing – Revealing Clean Cooking Opportunities

On Jan 27 we hosted a webinar discussing our recent Clean Cooking Data Report, our smart meter technology, current and future projects, and options to accelerate clean e-cooking with data…

10 Nov 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Clean Cooking / Full Data Release Report

In our new comprehensive data release report, the A2EI analyses the entire data collected by our smart meters monitoring the usage of electric pressure cookers…

15 Oct 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Paper on the Adoption of EPCs among Mini-Grid Customers in Tanzania

A2EI recently published a paper in a special edition of Energies focused on clean energy innovations for low and middle income countries…

15 Oct 2021 · Announcement · Archived

E-Mobility Adoption in Tanzania #1

Greenfoot is working to transform Africa’s consumer markets by providing local businesses with affordable transportation solutions powered by 100% electric micro-mobility…

12 Oct 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Gold Standard Project Stakeholder Consultation

A2EI is in the process of certifying a Gold Standard project that is providing solar systems for small businesses and households across Nigeria…

16 Jul 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Study of Hotplate & Grid Use in Rural Malawi

A2EI has been part of a feasibility study to pave the way for mass distribution of electric hotplates to rural households in Malawi…

14 Jul 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Productive Use Machinery in Agriculture

Together with our first Entrepreneur in residence, Imara Tech, the A2EI is keen to share key elements of successful productive use appliances development…

28 Jun 2021 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI shares Impact Survey Bot as an open source tool

We are pleased to announce that the A2EI is sharing their Impact Survey Bot (ISB) as an open source tool!

20 May 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Webinar Global Climate Impact Payments Platform (CLIPP)

Our May 18th Webinar included an intro to the methodology & features of the new global CLIPP, an assessment of practitioners from the industry and our pilot partners, and a Q&A discussion…

13 May 2021 · Announcement · Archived

PoA Design Consultation for GS CDM PoA ‘Solar systems for small businesses and households’

A2EI will develop a carbon Programme of Activities that will be certified under the Clean Development Mechanism and the Gold Standard and we are asking for stakeholder feedback…

29 Apr 2021 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI launches global Climate Impact Payments Platform (CLIPP)

The A2EI has launched CLIPP, joining forces in a pilot project with five offgrid solar companies providing larger solar business systems and productive use appliances…

4 Apr 2021 · Announcement · Archived

New Partnership with the IKEA Foundation

Our partnership with the IKEA Foundation will help people in Africa power their livelihoods and earn a decent income through solar energy…

25 Mar 2021 · Announcement · Archived

First #SKGS solar technicians trained

We’re excited to have trained the first cohort of #SKGS technicians that are now installing & servicing the technology out in the field!

9 Mar 2021 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI and MECS to Monitor 1,000 eCooking Devices Globally

The A2EI & the MECS programme are proud to announce a strategic collaboration to record data on the real usage of electric cooking devices…

21 Jan 2021 · Announcement · Archived

Clean Cooking Webinar

On Feb 18 we hosted a webinar discussing the Clean Cooking Report, our smart meter & WhatsApp bot technologies and future projects…

8 Dec 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Clean Cooking Data Release

In a new report, we explore the usage of electric pressure cookers on remote mini-grid sites in Tanzania through analysis of 9 months of pilot data…

19 Oct 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Productive Use Webinar

In our webinar, lead author Elliot Avila presented the A2EI’s productive use report and methodology – and answered questions from stakeholders from within the off-grid solar sector…

21 Sept 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Productive Use Report

What makes or breaks a successful solar productive use appliance? The A2EI has developed a systematic methodology & published a report to jointly discuss this – and to help find solutions for successful adoption & scaling…

11 Jul 2020 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI partners with Greenfoot Africa

We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Greenfoot Africa, a recently launched Tanzania-based startup providing a 100% electric motorcycle pickup and delivery service…

2 Jun 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Analysis of generator usage during COVID-19

We wanted to find out how the lockdown affected generator usage & people’s energy consumption – & analyzed the data we gathered from our smart meters in Nigeria…

2 Jun 2020 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI develops WhatsApp Bot

The A2EI is currently developing a bot, which uses the messenger WhatsApp as the main channel to communicate with customers/researchers/team…

5 May 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Wrap-up GOGLA Olympics 2020

While we currently work from home to keep everyone safe – let us remember and cherish the fantastic memories & energy from the GOGLA Olympics 2020!!

28 Apr 2020 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI data release #2

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our second data release! For this release, we stuck to what was done best: the smart-metering of generators and grids…

9 Mar 2020 · Announcement · Archived

The A2EI welcomes Ify Malo as an advisory board member

We are honored to welcome Ify Malo, CEO of Clean Tech Hub and the Energy Innovation Center in Abuja, Nigeria, as an advisory board member…

13 Feb 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Evaluation of Solar Powered Agricultural Technologies

The Access to Energy Institute has released a preview of upcoming research into solar-powered agricultural technologies…

12 Feb 2020 · Announcement · Archived

Data sharing announcement

Prior to the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo in Nairobi next week, the A2EI is pleased to announce its progress in data collection, expansion of its data team, and industry-wide cooperation.

9 Oct 2019 · Announcement · Archived

First A2EI Info Briefing

Our first A2EI Info Briefing turns out to be a mix of project updates, personal stories of colleagues and interviews of friends in the industry as well as astounding facts & findings…

1 Oct 2019 · Announcement · Archived

Interview with Rachel Kyte

Rachel Kyte, one of our advisory board members, has switched hats this week and was named Fletcher School Dean. Ahead of her transition from CEO of SE4All, we have conducted a short interview…

25 Sept 2019 · Announcement · Archived

#StopGuessing

The gathering of objective data coming from smart meters and other sensors that we installed on generators is incredibly helpful to develop the right solar solutions to substitute loud and dirty fuel generators…

24 Sept 2019 · Announcement · Archived

Welcome to the A2E Lab

Based in Arusha, Tanzania, the Access to Energy Lab is an innovative space where researchers and engineers collaborate to bring new clean energy products to life…

16 Sept 2019 · Announcement · Archived

SELCO Foundation & A2EI Partnership

The A2EI and the SELCO Foundation initiated a strategic partnership to jointly develop, test and deploy selected solar powered agritech machines…

8 Aug 2019 · Announcement · Archived

First A2EI Advisory Board formed

We are very happy and honoured to announce the composition of the A2EI’s advisory board today…

27 Jun 2019 · Announcement · Archived

A2EI seeks stakeholder input for agricultural machine ranking

The A2EI is asking for input to help narrow the focus of agricultural machine research to technologies that are most relevant to the off-grid industry…

17 Jun 2019 · Announcement · Archived

New report on replacing fossil fuel generators

Today, the A2EI and Dalberg Advisors released a report on replacing fossil fuel generators with solar generators in Nigeria.

11 Jun 2019 · Announcement · Archived

“Solar Killed the Generator Star” Project

The A2EI has launched its project to support making Nigeria generator free…

10 Jun 2019 · Announcement · Archived

The Desirability of Clean Cooking in Off-Grid Households

A2EI’s research focused on the following question: Do off-grid households want to switch to electric cooking?