Role in the Off-Grid Industry: Research Organization - Consultancy Donor - Project Implementer
Headoffice: Germany
Countries of Operation:
Germany
Netherlands
Tanzania
USA
Organisation Type: Associate Member
The Access to Energy Institute strives to become the collaborative and non for profit research & development Institute that will advance the solar revolution in developing countries. It will primarily deliver solar powered solutions and appliances specifically for small businesses and smallholder farmers. The focus is on productive use appliances which will allow users to generate a stable income, generate jobs and create robust local economic networks. The A2EI is company agnostic and will serve the entire decentralized solar industry. Its core resources are a dual A2EI Lab structure that combines the best of customer centered development in East Africa (to start with) and engineering expertise in Berlin.
This makes us unique
The access to energy sector has overcome many challenges and the electrification of millions of customers has paved the way for achieving access to reliable and affordable electricity for nearly all households by 2030. So the next challenge is: When will all small businesses and smallholder farmers have access to all the energy needed to run a productive business? We believe the A2EI can be the collaborative platform where engineers, together with potential customers devise and develop the necessary portfolio of income-generating machines run on solar energy. Despite the pressing need, productive use appliances running on direct current, i.e. powered directly by solar energy have failed to be commercialized. This is partly due to a lack of engineering and innovation resources, a gap that the A2EI is hoping to fill, not only with own staff, but as a host putting engineering, customer knowledge and financial resources at the disposition of the off-grid sector.
Product / Service
We offer our services to B2B
