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ENGIE Energy Access now

delivering solar via mini-grids to

6.5mn in Sub-Saharan Africa

AFRICA ENGIE Energy Access (EEA) is now delivering Mobisol brands and serving everyone from off-
safe and reliable solar energy to 6.5mn people grid families enjoying clean energy for the first
in sub-pSaharan Africa, the pay-as-you-go and time to businesses of all sizes.
mini-grid solutions provider announced on “I am pleased with the excellent results we
Monday (November 22). have achieved within the first year of integrating
Within one year of integrating its decentral- our decentralized energy solutions companies,”
ised energy businesses, EEA has expanded its EEA chief executive Gillian-Alexandre Huart
customer base by approximately 200,000 new said.
customers across nine markets in Africa, bring- “We have strengthened synergies between
ing the total to more than 1.3mn. our solar home system and mini-grid businesses
“Key 2021 milestones achieved to date by decreasing costs, gaining in operational effi-
include a growth in customers in Uganda to ciencies and relying on strong digital tools, such
600,000, Zambia to 250,000, Benin to 150,000, as our PAYGo platform.”
and Mozambique to 50,000,” EEA said in a press EEA reached its first 1mn customers in
release. “EEA is focused on continuing to build part due to the support of partners such as
out the pipeline with three mini-grids under the European Union and the Swedish and US
construction in Benin, Nigeria and Uganda, and governments.
more pilots on the way.” Universal electrification is the seventh of the
In April 2021, EEA began gradually rolling United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
out its new solar home system (SHS) customer (SDGs) that the global community has commit-
brand, MySol, replacing the Fenix Power and ted to achieve by 2030.™

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