Women-to-women entrepreneurial energy networks: A pathway to green energy uptake at the base of pyramid

Through their unique and innovative women-to-women entrepreneurial networks, the enterprise offers a wide range of high quality clean energy products with a long life-cycle, and has created an new value chain that works for those at the base of the pyramid by positioning themselves close to their markets, tailoring innovation to social needs, mitigating high costs through micro-entrepreneurship and by growing networks and expertise through multi-stakeholder partnerships. Subsequently, they have increased local awareness, trust and ownership in the green energy products, and succeeded in large scale dissemination of the new technologies at the BoP.