Azuri Wins Energy Globe South Sudan

Azuri’s commitment to bringing affordable and clean solar power to rural households in South Sudan has been recognized by the Energy Globe award, which is today’s most prominent environmental award.

The goal of the award is to present successful sustainable projects that demonstrate to a broad audience that many of the world’s environmental problems already have good, feasible solutions. This year, more than 100 countries sent in a total of 1,051 entries. The international jury of experts, chaired by Maneka Gandhi, the former minister for the environment in India, evaluated all submissions of a respective country and selected the Energy Globe national winners.

Azuri first introduced its pioneering Indigo pay-as-you-go solar technology in Nimule, South Sudan in 2012, and has been working with local partner Luminance12 to provide rural households with clean lighting and mobile phone charging. Prior to Indigo, it was not uncommon for women to spend up to three hours a day collecting grass to burn for lighting and to travel many kilometers to charge their mobile phone several times a week.

“It is with great delight that Azuri has been awarded the Energy Globe award for South Sudan,” Azuri CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth said. “With our partner, Luminance12, the deployment in South Sudan which began just a year after the establishment of the country was a milestone in the application of pay-as-you-go solar in genuinely new markets.”