Rural Spark

In 2017, ElectriFI committed EUR 100,000 to support Rural Spark’s distribution strategy in rural India targeting distributing 450 energy kits. 

Countries: India, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria

Total ElectriFI funding: EUR 0.1m

Status: exited

About the project:

ElectriFI committed EUR 100 000 in development financing to test and validate the distribution model of Rural Spark energy kits through rural distribution partners who already have activities in unelectrified or barely electrified villages. The development loan funding will go into supporting the testing and validation of the right distribution partners with a sample of at least 450 kits to be distributed. 

Rural Spark is a Dutch company having successfully developed a disruptive sustainable energy solution distributed in unelectrified villages in North India. They recently came up with high qualitative energy kits or solar home systems, containing of an energy source (a 40Wp solar PV), the energy router, “share cubes” (battery cubes), and several applications like lamps, TV and fans. These energy kits are compatible with the grid and they can also be interconnected between them via the “share cubes” to share and exchange energy surpluses. Rural Spark products allows villagers to group and become ‘Local Energy Suppliers’ through a hire & purchase model.

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