Nthabiseng Mosia is a South African-Ghanaian entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Easy Solar which has transformed West-African off-grid communities by making clean energy affordable to them. She has managed to do this by offering solar-powered devices on a “rent-to-own” financing structure, enabled by embedded Pay-As-You-Go technology and mobile money. Sales and payments are tracked in real-time on an online platform, allowing for the creation of credit scores and remote customer support. As a last mile distributor, Easy Solar reaches customers underserved by the grid through an extensive network of community-based agents, making clean energy both affordable and accessible.

Since its launch in 2016, they have built a network of nine distribution points across 16 districts in Sierra Leone.

To date, Easy Solar has brought electricity to more than 50 000 people, about 8 000 households elevated lifestyle sustenance the by helping households save money on kerosene and cheap battery-powered torches.

Mosia who resides in Sierra Leone has a lot of achievements to her name including being on Forbes’ 30 Most Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs in Africa in 2018, and one of South Africa’s 100 Most Influential Young People of 2017. Her experience spans the energy spectrum range, from modelling the impacts of distributed generation on the need for transmission builds in California state, to analyzing the demand side viability of mini-grids in northern Kenya. She also has a Masters in Energy Finance and Policy from Columbia University and a B.Bus.Sc in Finance from the University of Cape Town.