Goal: Develop, implement and operate sustainable, inclusive, profitable go-to market strategies for frontier markets, while serving BoP communities with energy, connectivity, essential products and services.

Short description: Based on Solarkiosk’s proprietary E-HUBB technology, intertwined with Solarkiosk’s inclusive business model, we help our partners to design, implement and operated a solar powered Retail & Trading network, targeting rural off-grid/bad grid Bottom of the Pyramid communities. Our partners in particular benefit from Solarkiosk’s many years of experience on implementing and operating East Africa’s largest rural retail network with more than 200 E-HUBBs trading outlets in 4 East-Africa countries.

As part of the greenfield development, we will in a step-by-sep approach first check the feasibility, develop a detailed business plan, pilot and roll-out a solar powered trading network consisting of our prefabricated solar powered shops (“E-HUBBs”).

Conditional to a successful pilot phase, the aim of the project will be to incorporate and operate a trading company (“Company”), roll out the E-HUBB network and implement all required policies, tools and procedures, with the objective to establish a profitable company.

The objective is to create an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable company. Establishing a profitable retail Company in BoP communities will foster the following sustainable development goals (SDG’s):

	SDG Goal:	Supporting these goals through:
	GOAL 1: No Poverty	Reducing poverty penalty Ensuring affordable prices for quality products
	GOAL 2: Zero Hunger	Distribution of food Distribution of quality farming inputs for farmers to grow crops Solar powered drying and cold storage to reduce food loss
	GOAL 4: Quality Education	Distribution of solar lamps for night time studies Distribution of school material Other cooperation with local school to better the quality of education
	GOAL 5: Gender Equality	empowering predominantly female operators
	GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation	Distribution of safe drinking water Possibility of purifying water with the E-HUBB
	GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy	Businesses run by solar power Distribution of solar powered products
	GOAL 8: Decent work and economic growth	Create jobs and businesses Create entrepreneurial opportunities, ranging from leadership to BoP level, accelerating economic growth in last mile communities
	GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure	Building modern, solar powered infrastructure Enable entrepreneurship and innovation with the infrastructure
	GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal	By becoming the energy and connectivity gateway in BoP communities, giving local and global partners the possibility to develop their activities through the local company as a partner within the communities

The Project will be structured in five phases, starting with a feasibility study and ending after successful implementation of the country/region wide roll-out. The process flow of the project has been designed to de-risk an investment at each step and give our partner full control of the project in each phase.

Our clients include ABInBev, Coca Cola, MunichRe, Total, Siemens Stiftung, and Ericsson, among others.

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Goal: Develop sustainable solar powered infrastructure products and solutions in off-grid frontier markets, in limited to off-grid areas worldwide and intertwine these physical solutions with inclusive business models, adapted for the needs of off-grid communities.

Short description: Depending on the individual need of our client in terms of solar powered infrastructure needs, Solarkiosk offers its services of developing, manufacturing and improving individual solutions for specific usages, following our product development process:

These solutions always are specifically aimed at establishing solutions for energy needs in frontier markets. Solarkiosk already has created such solutions for healthcare, education, retail, individual home usage.

Our clients include ABInBev, Coca Cola, MunichRe, Total, Siemens Stiftung, and Ericsson, among others.

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Thanks to available solar technological advances, as well as, the increasingly competitive prices in the market, solar energy has become the main source of energy for more and more users. Many businesses and consumers still face the issue of not being connected to the grid, which means a lot of issues, such as:

• Having to use a diesel genset, which is expensive and means a lot of hustle
• High electricity bills reducing operational results
• Ever fluctuating electricity and diesel prices make long term planning difficult
• etc.

  Solar is not only the more responsible choice over a diesel generators, it also helps to save money over time. The following graph depicts the cumulative cash flower calculation graph of a 750 kw solar off-grid system with battery back up versus power from a diesel generator. The return on investment in the solar system is reached under three years.

  

  Investing in a solar system can have manifold benefits, here just a couple of them:

  • Environmental friendly energy
  • Low Maintenance Costs
  • Reduces monthly electricity bills
  • Etc.

  But as the investment in a solar system can be, depending on the size of the system, a significant expense, which is going to return the investment through savings on the energy costs only over several months. For this reason, the most important thing to do before investing in such a system is to ensure a proper system size calculation that is:

  • Not oversized (and would cost too much) OR
  • Not undersized (and would not be able to deliver enough power to run all required electrical appliances

  In order to ensure that all energy needs are being met by the Solar system to work properly. Only a correct sized system can show the targeted savings, so this step in an investment decision emerges as a critical process and the foundation for a proper decision making basis of an investment.

  Solarkiosk is using modern software simulation tools to specify the right PV system. We specify the right balance of system components that, when correctly configured, always achieve high yields and long term results.

  We are now offering these services for our customers.

  Please contact us for more information.