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Huge off-grid solar requirement in Africa
600M people lack access to electricity
~$17Bn/year on kerosene for lighting
- Consumes 30% disposable household income
- Harmful to health, dangerous
600M+ mobile subscribers
~$15Bn spend charging phones
- 70c/phone/week
- Time consuming, trips to market
Massive Commercial Opportunity ~$30Bn/year
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Sustainable Technology needs a
Sustainable Business Model
Power is a pay-as-you-go Service…. …..Solar is all UP FRONT + Maintenance/Repair
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Technology that saves money
Customer cuts weekly energy spend by 50% or more
AND
has 8 hours of light for 2 rooms + mobile phone charging too
Without Indigo
• $10/month for Kerosene
• $0.20/charge for mobile
Total:
~$13/month
With Indigo
• $10 install (one-off fee)
• $1.50/week top-up
Total:
~$6/month
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Beyond lighting
• 7 out of 10 of the fastest
growing countries in 2013 are in
Africa
• “African Middle Class” defined
by ADB as income of $2-20/day
• 40% of Africans under age of 14
• Population to grow 50% by mid
century
• Huge demand for affordable
consumer electronics
• Information, entertainment,
knowledge, entrepreneurship
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Technology problem or business problem?
• In most cases, the fundamental technology exists today
– Old world view: recycle out of date technology at low cost
– New world view: use the latest technology to meet the market need
• But the packaging is different
– Drones to deliver medicines
– Phones to pay bills
– LED lights
• Technology can help address market failures
– Internet creates a viable market for crops
– Shampoo in sachets
• We can’t assume the past is a predictor of the future
– Leapfrog opportunity in developing countries
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Example: “un-grid” Vision of the Future
Energised home Conventional Grid
– Connection ~$400-800
– Bottom-up view of power
– Losses in distribution
– Centralised purchasing
Distributed Power
– Un-Grid delivers power now
– New generation of low power, low
voltage appliances
– Vision of future power usage
– Just as mobile replaced the landline
TV,
Radio
Lights
Phone
Internet
TabletWhite
Goods
DC
Power
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Field Data: Households saving money and time
3% 5%
3%5%
6%
92%
86%
Now I have Indigo, my
household and I are
saving time
Now I have Indigo, my
household’s expenditure
on lighting and phone
charging has decreased
Strongly
Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly
DisagreeBefore: 2.3USD/week
Now:
0.3USD
• 100% strongly agreed with the
statement “Now I have Indigo, I am
using less kerosene”
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Productive day extended by up to 3 hours
Children spend 2 hours on average additional homework
Eliminates kerosene fumes, fire risk and CO2 burden
Saves customers money from the outset
Social impact
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Fishermen in Sierra Leone use Indigo to fish at night
New Opportunities