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ADB: Asian Development Bank Signs $2m Equity Investment in Simpa 19 Mar 2013 | 04:35 pm
Pay-As-You-Go Model Expands Solar Energy Access in Rural India MANILA, PHILIPPINES – More than 60,000 households in rural India will have better access to electricity by 2015 as Simpa Networks, a comp...
ENSIA: Solar energy solutions for the developing world 17 Feb 2013 | 10:45 am
Tiny lamps and clever financing may finally bring solar to the developing world. “Mobile banking and microfinancing—those two things combined are making for some interesting possibilities that weren’t...
ENTREPRENEUR: Simpa Networks offers clean energy through a prepaid payment platform 17 Feb 2013 | 10:32 am
A large section of rural India still remains without electricity. Bengaluru-based Simpa Networks is trying to change the situation with a prepaid service There is no doubt that clean technology still ...
IFC Helps Simpa Scale up Mobile-Based Affordable Solutions for Clean Energy 21 Jan 2013 | 08:18 am
IFC Helps Simpa Networks Scale up Mobile-Based Affordable Solutions for Clean Energy New Delhi, India, November 26, 2012—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is advising local technology start-up S...
WIPO: Pay-as-you-go Solar Power 22 Aug 2012 | 03:32 pm
“While for many people, electrical power is available at the flick of a switch, for some 1.6 billion people around the world without access to grid electricity this remains a dream. An innovative tech...
Gigaom: 10 Solar Projects in India that can Help Fight Grid Blackouts 14 Aug 2012 | 05:58 pm
Gigaom noted Simpa Networks mobile, pay-as-you-go system for solar power as one of ten promising clean energy projects in the wake of India’s recent blackouts. Read full article here.
PV MAGAZINE: Lighting the way ahead 6 Jun 2012 | 12:27 am
PV MAGAZINE, June 2012: “Affordable off-grid solar: More often than not solar generation fails to deliver in poor, rural off-grid communities, but new business models that spread the cost of solar ele...
RENEWABLE ENERGY: New pay-as-you-go solar model unveiled for un-banked in India 1 May 2012 | 06:12 pm
“The lack of access to end-user financing is one of the biggest obstacles to the spread of solar home systems to the 200 million energy poor households and small businesses in India.” Read the full s...
GUARDIAN: How can business enable energy access for all? 13 Apr 2012 | 06:43 am
“… In order to reach the poorest people who lack energy access and who are largely in remote communities, you need a business model that looks at both the financial bottom line and the triple bottom l...
BLOOMBERG: Solar Venture Lights Up Indian Village With an SMS 12 Apr 2012 | 03:34 pm
April 12th, 2012 – The villagers of Halliberu in southern India are on the crest of an electricity revolution. Bangalore-based Simpa Networks Inc. has been installing solar power equipment in their no...
