Known as the kingdom in the sky, Lesotho is a small, developing country crossed by mountain ranges and rivers, making it difficult to get electricity to rural regions. Recent estimates suggest that less than half of all households have electricity.
There are other companies building minigrids in Africa, but OnePower is the only one to have accomplished the feat in Lesotho, and it’s not hard to understand why. Known as the kingdom in the sky, Lesotho is a small, developing country crossed by mountain ranges and rivers, making it difficult to get electricity to rural regions.
The move coincided with OnePower’s successful bid to develop the first utility-scale solar project in Lesotho, a 20-megawatt project that will sell electricity to Lesotho’s central grid in addition to OnePower’s minigrid work. OnePower expects that project, named Neo 1, to start delivering power to Lesotho’s central electric grid next year.
MIT alumni-founded OnePower is building minigrids to power villages across the small, mountainous country. OnePower is building networks of minigrids powered by solar energy to bring electricity to rural regions of Lesotho. OnePower is currently building minigrids across Lesotho.
Lesotho
The project objective is to increase access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas of Lesotho.
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