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French solar system provider Baobab+ raises $2.3mln to expand in Senegal

French solar system provider Baobab+ raises $2.3mln to expand in Senegal
Tuesday, 06 April 2021 14:35

The French solar kit provider Baobab+, which focuses on West Africa, obtained a loan of €2mln ($2.3 million) from the investment bank Lion's Head Global Partners and Triple Jump, an emerging markets fund manager.

The money will support the beneficiary’s expansion in Senegal, where the company has equipped more than 100,000 families mainly in rural areas since the end of 2015. “While only 33% of the Senegalese population has access to energy in the countryside, this funding will help remedy the situation and allow us to expand our solar kit distribution network throughout the country, with a focus on use through micro-entrepreneurs," said Alexandre Coster, founder, and CEO of Baobab +.

Before this initiative, the French firm, launched in 2015 and present in six African countries, also partnered in late 2019 with mobile operator Airtel to extend its solar kits to populations in rural areas of Madagascar.

In Senegal, the solar kit market generated $499,390 in sales during the first half of 2017 for 67,503 products sold, according to a 2018 report by Innogence Consulting on the state of the solar kit market in Africa.

Baobab+ which supports households and micro-entrepreneurs in their energy autonomy also offers digital devices for educational and professional purposes.

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