14 Dec
INDUSTRY TRENDS

Three Approaches To Making Productive Uses Of Energy Accessible To All

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Productive Use of Energy (PUE) technologies, such as solar water pumps, refrigeration and sewing machines, are crucial for helping smallholder farmers and other microentrepreneurs generate incomes, either through starting a new business or improving the economics of an existing one.   But their up-front costs remain prohibitive for those at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).

In order to realise the true potential of PUE, the social enterprise sector needs to devise new business models that remove this risk so that the most vulnerable can access these life-changing technologies.

Three Approaches to Bringing PUE to the BoP:

  1.    SERVICE MODELS
  2.    COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP
  3.    SELLING TO ESTABLISHED MICROENTREPRENEURS