Getting kits to customers who need it at a price they can afford in Democratic Republic of Congo is a miracle of technology and supply chains
The story of how two exiles from the DRC brought up in a Tanzanian refugee camp hit upon the idea of bringing renewable energy to their homeland is the stuff of Hollywood movies. But the path that Mashangao and his partner, Washikala Malango, followed is, in fact, one that has been well trodden.
Pay-as-you-go model has allowed off-grid solar to spread rapidly around Africa © Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg Altech — and Easy Solar, a Sierra Leone company that made the ranking’s top 50 at number 9 — are at earlier stages of development. That helps to explain their faster growth, says Turman, who notes that companies that have cracked the last-mile problem are likely to expand quickly.
The two Congolese founders set up what became Altech after seeing simple solar kits in a market in Dar es Salaam a decade ago.
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