Zimbabwe: PAYG solar start-up lights 4,000 households

Off-grid solar start-up Zonful Energy says it has connected 3,480 households under a pay-as-you-go-solar credit scheme in rural Zimbabwe that is being rolled out from a $50,000 loan sourced from US non-profit lender Kiva. Chief executive William Ponella said his company, which launched the country’s first known pay-as-you-go-solar credit scheme in March in partnership with mobile giant Econet Wireless, aimed to switch on about 380,000 households by 2020.