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Nigeria’s Starsight Energy
moves into East Africa
NIGERIA NIGERIA’S Starsight Energy has announced its are excited to be partnering with Premier Solar
acquisition of a 50% stake in the East African Group in East Africa. The newly formed com-
operations of Commercial and Industrial (C&I) pany will deliver significant financial capacity to
solar power provider, Premier Solar Group. the region’s energy-efficiency market and offers
The transaction will see the creation of Star- new and existing clients an unprecedented
sight Premier Energy Group that will offer sus- opportunity to scale their sustainable power,
tainable power and cooling-as-a-service and cooling and storage systems. Starsight Premier
battery storage solutions to C&I clients in Kenya, Energy Group will combine Starsight’s indus-
Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. try-leading service and technology with Premier
Premier Solar Solutions, the Kenyan subsid- Solar Group’s established footprint in Kenya. We
iary of Premier Solar Group, is already a leading look forward to bringing our unparalleled ser-
player in the Kenyan C&I solar sector with five vice and 99.9% uptime guarantee to new C&I
delivered projects totalling 2.7 MW, eight pro- clients in the region.”
jects totalling 8.8 MW currently in execution, Rupesh Hindocha, founder and CEO of Pre-
and a pipeline of a further 20 MW in Kenya. Fur- mier Solar Group, has been appointed chairman
thermore, expansion into Uganda, Tanzania and and CEO of Starsight Premier Energy Group.
Rwanda is planned for 2021 and 2022. Rajat Surey, head of projects and technical at
In West Africa, Starsight Energy, an energy- Premier Solar Group, has been appointed CTO.
as-a-service provider, has 41 MW of installed Starsight has developed leading technology
solar PV generating capacity, 33 MWh of battery and a deep in-house capability for designing
storage and 16,320 HP in cooling capacity across C&I solutions, having completed over 400 sites
547 sites in Nigeria and Ghana. in Nigeria since 2015.
Premier Solar Group brings international The company is backed by leading African
experience delivering end-to-end distributed Private Equity firms Helios Investment Part-
solar PV solutions to C&I clients in East Africa, ners and Africa Infrastructure Investment
India, Sri Lanka and the UAE. Managers.
Tony Carr, Starsight Energy CEO, said: “We
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