E+Co Information

E+Co's mission is to empower local small and medium enterprises that supply clean, modern and affordable energy to households, businesses and communities in developing countries. E+Co provides a combination of enterprise development services and investment to local enterprises; resulting in access to energy for those using traditional, expensive, unhealthy and unreliable energy as well as the elimination of energy waste by offsetting fossil fuel use. For more than a decade, E+Co has targeted its activities to those that innovate in the energy-environment-development finance value chain. The purpose is to stimulate investment in and services to local energy entrepreneurs -- those men and women that E+Co believes are the key actors in combating energy waste and energy poverty. E+Co's approach to this mission and purpose is to connect the dots among the variety of actors and factors needed to increase modern energy access. The approach, called the "enterprise centered business model" is market-based, flexible and built on more than a decade of experience. E+Co's role as a public purpose investment company blends best practices from philanthropic, venture capital, public and private sectors in a sector long dominated by intransient stakeholders. In the energy sector, the interventions have been dominated by large, fossil fuel based, utility centered and multi-lateral/government financed power plants. E+Co's model fosters an emphasis on decentralized, renewable energy and energy efficiency, private sector led businesses. It is the commencement of a new energy finance paradigm. E+Co's approach is to empower local small and medium enterprises that supply clean and affordable energy to households, businesses and communities in developing countries. We do this by providing business development services and investment capital to enterprises. The combination of services and capital is one thing that distinguishes E+Co's work from others in the clean energy field. Our model is based on supporting local entrepreneurs that ...