Pay-as-you-go solar home systems (M-KOPA)
Energía solar doméstica de pago por uso (M-KOPA)
- Date
- 2012 · confidence high
- Place
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Credited to
- Jesse Moore, Nick Hughes and Chad Larson
- People
- 👤 Chad Larson1965–👤 Jesse Moore2003–
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Home solar kits paid off in daily instalments using mobile money and remotely locked if payments lapse. It brought electricity to millions of off-grid households.
Nick Hughes had led the original M-Pesa project at Vodafone.
What it led to
- off-grid electrification in East Africa
- credit based on mobile payment history
- a pay-as-you-go model copied across the continent