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The acquisition asserts Bboxx’s position as the leading super platform for essential products and services in Africa, providing clean energy, clean cooking, mobile phone technology and accessible financial products to 3.5 million people Deal gives Bboxx access to new markets in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Mali, bringing total operating markets to 10 countries Bboxx benefits from PEG Africa’s operational…

PEG Ghana, West Africa’s largest and fastest growing independent provider of distributed energy, has installed the first of 55 solar energy solutions in selected Community-based Health Planning & Services (CHPS) facilities in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The project to electrify these rural health posts is being made possible by grant funding from USAID/Power Africa who selected PEG Ghana as…

Meet Mr. Agyemang Kudom, a cabbage farmer located in Kintampo, Bono East, a richly agricultural area in the centre west part of Ghana. Mr Kudom had started to grow cabbages on his farm for the first time, using watering cans and an electric pump to irrigate 0.25-acre of farmland. However, he found that the cost of this operation was prohibitive,…

Meet Mr John Mensah... John is a local farmer living in a remote and off-grid area in the Ashanti region of Ghana who had a dream of growing strawberries on his farm. Crazy? Strawberries in Ghana? As the picture shows this was not a crazy idea and this could just be the beginning of a lucrative new business. John initially…

PEG Africa, a leading distributed energy company, passed US$1 million of sales from hundreds of pump installations in 2020. PEG Africa is a leader in deploying and financing solar products to rural and peri-urban households and SMEs in West Africa. It focuses on providing embedded finance for useful and productive assets, such as solar home systems via its PAYG financing…

PEG Africa, West Africa’s largest and fastest growing independent provider of distributed energy, has plans to pilot solar fridges and freezers in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal. Over 150 million people in West Africa do not have access to basic electricity.  This has a massive and expensive impact on households and traders wanting to keep food and produce fresh, as…

On the back of a profitable first year in Senegal, PEG Africa leverages successful expansion playbook to move into Mali.  PEG Africa is a leader in deploying and financing solar to households and SMEs in West Africa. Via its PAYG financing model, it enables customers to replace their perpetual spending on poor-quality polluting fuels such as kerosene and diesel with…

PEG Africa is a leader in deploying and financing solar to households and SMEs in West Africa. Via its PAYG financing model, it enables customers to replace their perpetual spending on poor-quality polluting fuels such as kerosene and diesel with solar energy. PEG is currently serving over 400,000 daily users in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, and has recently expanded…

PEG Africa, a West Africa-based pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar company, has raised US$5 million from ElectriFI to continue rapid growth in existing markets. PEG Africa is a leader in deploying and financing solar to households and SMEs in West Africa. Via its PAYG financing model, it enables customers to replace their perpetual spending on poor-quality polluting fuels such as kerosene and…

PEG has qualified as a 2X investment under three of the five 2X categories: advancing women in leadership; meaningfully supporting its female employees; and implementing a targeted strategy to increase the number of female customers.

PEG has raised a US$25 million Series C funding round, allowing it to cement its position as a market leader in the region.