- EEA has enabled 6.5 million Africans via smart integration of mini-grids and solar home systems
- It has acquired nearly 200,000 customers across its African market.
ENGIE Energy Access (EEA) is pleased to announce that within one year of integrating its decentralized energy businesses, it has considerably expanded its customer base and is now delivering safe and reliable solar energy to 6.5 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
EEA has acquired about 200,000 new customers across its nine markets of operation in Africa throughout 2021, despite the challenges that COVID-19 created – bringing its customer base to more than 1.3 million. Key 2021 milestones achieved to date include growing customers in Uganda to 600,000, Zambia to 250,000, Benin to 150,000, and Mozambique to 50,000.
In April 2021, EEA began gradually rolling out its new solar home system (SHS) customer brand, MySol, replacing the Fenix Power and Mobisol brands. With MySol, EEA offers the widest range of PAYGo SHS throughout Africa and caters to all kinds of customers, from off-grid families lighting up with clean energy for the first time to entrepreneurs running businesses of all sizes.
EEA has equipped 13 villages with its ENGIE PowerCorner mini-grids to date, comprising 3,000 households and 200 businesses. In addition, it has successfully strengthened the mini-grid pipeline in the past year, securing over 180 additional projects – including 60 mini-grids approved in Zambia and 11 more in Benin. EEA is focused on building out the pipeline with three mini-grids under construction in Benin, Nigeria and Uganda, and more pilots on the way.