Nicole Poindexter thanking the organisers
Black Star Energy, a company that specializes in the development of mini-grids has won the second EDF Pulse Africa 2018 awards after competing against nine other African finalists.
The 10 finalists were invited for a week in Paris to participate in a three-day coaching session in EDF training centre called ‘The Lab” to accelerate their ability to pitch their innovation.’
They were selected by EDF from a panel of 432 startups from 24 African countries.
Having attracted four times more entries than last year, EDF Pulse Africa has confirmed the momentum of African start-ups and their interest in EDF’s support.
Olivier Clement, EDF Country representative in Ghana in a statement issued in Accra yesterday said “EDF is committed to support African startups willing to growing the continent’s energy sector”
The company already operates 15 of them in the country and aims to connect more than 12 000 Ghanaians to the grid by the end of the year.
The system has a very high capability factor (over 98 per cent) and allows clients to track their energy usage and pay their bills via smartphone.
The customer relation platform is flexible enough to meet a wide range of customer needs and apply customized time-of-use tariffs.
Nicole Pointdexter the start-up’s CEO, said “ this award represents a great opportunity to get in touch with a major international company like EDF, but especially to strengthen its credibility in the field related to access to energy in Africa.”
“EDF support with startups awarded doesn’t end with this final. This is just the beginning of a programme to facilitate their development: operational and financial advice, project development partnerships with local players and with EDF experts, access to EDF’s innovation ecosystem. EDF is doing its best to put Black Star Energy on the ramp of bigger success.”
A key player in energy transition, the EDF Group is an integrated electricity company, active in all areas of the business: generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading, energy services.
A global leader in low-carbon energies, the Group has developed a diversified generation mix based on nuclear power, hydropower, new renewable energies and thermal energy.
The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 37.1 million customers, of which 26.2 million in France.
The Group generated consolidated sales of €71 billion in 2016. EDF is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
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