{"id":5858,"date":"2019-10-11T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T06:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"kenya-tops-m-kopa-solar-panel-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/11\/kenya-tops-m-kopa-solar-panel-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Tops M-KOPA Solar Panel Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By James\nKariuki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safaricom-backed\nsolar products reseller M-KOPA has sold 850,000 panels in four African markets\nthrough its credit-based pay-as-you-go model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M-KOPA\nchief executive Jesse Moore said 80 percent of their sales were made in Kenya,\nmostly to repeat buyers who moved to upgrade their kits after completing the\nfirst purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\nsold our solar kits to 750,000 households via a Sh23.3 billion upfront funding\nthat is regularly repaid via the Safaricom\u2019s M-Pesa platform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking\nin Nairobi when he released the 2019 impact report dubbed, \u2018Upgrading Lives\u2019,\nMr Moore said beneficiaries had reported huge savings on the money they would\nuse for kerosene and to charge their mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M-KOPA\nin a deal with Naivasha-based manufacturer Solinc East Africa, sources for 15W\nand 20W solar panels that power M-KOPA\u2019s larger home systems, which include TV,\nlights, radio and phone charging\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/companies\/Kenya-tops-MKOPA-solar-panel-sales\/4003102-5306616-11ea7jn\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Kariuki Safaricom-backed solar products reseller M-KOPA has sold 850,000 panels in four African markets through its credit-based pay-as-you-go model. M-KOPA chief executive Jesse Moore said 80 percent of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}