Key Performance Indicators launched for Solar PAYG

The Distributed Energy Service Company sector is growing rapidly, especially the segments that use a variation of the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) business model, which alone has provided more than 700,000 connections over the last six years in East Africa. PAYG business models are capital intensive and require significant amounts of working capital to scale. While the PAYG industry has raised over USD 300 million capital since 2012, commercial level capital is still needed to finance the increasing capital demands of the sector.

The off-grid solar sector was recently subject of intense public debate, highlighting mismatched expectations for growth, and/or misinterpreted social or economic impacts.

Being a relatively new industry/asset class, there is limited information around market size, effective policy incentives, business model dynamics or financial and operational performance of PAYG companies. Both investors and companies agreed that increased availability of data and reporting standards could help increase transparency and manage perceptions of risk. Looking at how other sectors have dealt with similar challenges, it was agreed that a KPI framework and increased capacity around data reporting and standardization would be of great benefit for the sector.

Together with GOGLA, Lighting Global has developed a KPI framework to leverage data and advanced analytics to improve information flow between investors and companies by establishing standardized performance definitions and reporting standards.

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