NovoMoto Updates Work in Africa

by Taylor Kennedy

NovoMoto

NovoMoto is finishing its first 100 solar lighting installations, which can store 20 watt-hours, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the company announced today.

“In rural villages, lighting options come down to kerosene, candles or flashlights with single-use batteries,” NovoMoto Co-Founder Aaron Olson said in a statement. “This is a stellar improvement and the response in Mboka Paul confirms this.”

According to a release, NovoMoto distributes the systems on a rent-to-own basis near the capital, Kinshasa. Customers pay a $10 down payment and after three years of paying $2.15 a week, the customers own the system.

In 2017, NovoMoto served eight pilot customers in Mboka Paul before beginning the current addition of the 100 solar lighting installations.

The company is looking to serve 2,000 people by end of 2018 and 20,000 by end of 2019.