
Sun King
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Sun King provides affordable solar energy for the 1.8 billion people around the world without reliable access to the electrical grid
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Joined July 2012
Sun King has closed a $156M local currency securitisation — the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa (outside SA) & the first to be majority-backed by commercial banks. This funding will bring affordable solar energy access to 1.4M Kenyan homes and businesses. #SolarEnergy #EnergyAccess
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Millions of children across #Africa miss out on the opportunity to build the skills they need to thrive because their schools have no power. In #Malawi, the government-led BEFIT programme with @Literacy_Now1 & Sun King is changing that.
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"We used to send patients away at night when the lights went out." — Boniface Rucathi, Sienna Clinic Co-Founder. Now? They run 24/7 on Sun King’s solar power inverter. No blackouts mean that critical care never stops. Reliable, affordable #SolarEnergy changes everything.
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Basic electricity access is a lifeline. Sun King is proud to support #Mission300 — connecting 300M people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. 📈 300K solar installs/month.💼 32K green jobs.💡 $1.2B in solar loans.Our CEO highlights more: Cc: @WBG_Energy.
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We spoke with T. Patrick Walsh, CEO of Sun King, about the ambitious goal to connect 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa to #electricity by 2030. Walsh highlighted the vital role of results-ba...
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Whether you're lighting up your home, powering a business, or staying productive during outages, this collaboration is here to make energy access easy and affordable. #SayYello #MoMoZambia #SolarEnergy #EnergyAccess
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#SayYello to energy that’s easy to access, affordable, and built to last. Sun King and @MTN_Zambia MoMo 🇿🇲 have partnered to bring clean, reliable solar energy closer to you. Learn more:
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With support from a new $80M loan from @IFC_org & @StanbicIBTC, Sun King is scaling solar access in Nigeria—one of the world’s most electricity-deprived countries. 90M still lack power. Thanks to @onu_kwue of @semafor for this spotlight:
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A Kenya-based solar power company is banking on using an $80 million loan from the World Bank’s private investment arm to meet its target of tripling sales in the world’s most electricity-deprived country within the next few years.
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RT @business: Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, secured financing from a World Bank-backed program to boost electrifica….
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Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, secured financing from a World Bank-backed program to boost electrification in Nigeria, which has the largest number of people without power.
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The real story of investing in Africa is more nuanced and positive than the headlines suggest. We're featured in @AVCA_Africa's film 'Bold Moves, Real Impact', where our CFO shares how Sun King scaled with private capital to expand solar access: #AVCA2025.
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We’re proud to have bagged three awards at the 4th #SolarWeekKenya Leadership Awards 2025! 🏆.- Solar Company of the Year – Financial Innovation.- Best Product Design Team.- Outstanding Product Innovation – PowerHub Series. We’re committed to powering access to brighter lives!
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1 in 5 Kenyans uses a Sun King product! Our PAYGo model makes ##CleanEnergy affordable with small, flexible payments. With @FMO_development’s, our $130m Kenyan securitisation turns solar payments into an investable asset, scaling access to reliable energy:
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This means safer deliveries, fewer emergency referrals, and uninterrupted access to vaccines and medicine. Proud to see this story in @GOGLAssociation’s latest report on the role of off-grid solar in powering climate resilience:
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GOGLA is developing a sector-wide framework for measuring and monitoring the impact of off-grid technologies on resilience and adaptation
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#SolarPower is transforming healthcare at Mwenge Dispensary in Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿. On a recent field visit, we witnessed first-hand how the small health facility now has reliable, round-the-clock power thanks to Sun King’s PowerHub hybrid solar system. #EnergyAccess
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Complementing our existing EasyBuy pay-as-you-go loans, this partnership provides a new financing pathway to help promote access to clean, reliable and affordable energy access in #Zambia. Learn more:
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Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products for the 1.8 billion who people currently living without reliable energy access.
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Sun King has partnered with @ecobank_zambia to make the purchase of our inverter products easier & at a discounted price. Ecobank customers can now buy our most powerful solar products - PowerHub and PowerPlay - through credit from the bank: #SolarEnergy
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At today's #PowerElec2025 Conference in Nigeria, Ameh Bright Agbo spoke on how solar can empower rural communities. Agbo highlighted a solar subsidy initiative that reduced Nigerians' out-of-pocket costs by 40%, resulting in a fourfold increase in our monthly installations.
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