Nuru

Nuru Energy is a for profit social enterprise with the primary mission to provide a clean alternative to the existing sources of energy available to the rural poor. A huge number of people, about 2 billion, or one third of the world’s population, do not have access to the modern energy sources that we in the developed world take for granted.

So what do these 2 billion people do for light? They burn kerosene and firewood and by doing so, they subject themselves to harmful fumes, they spend up to a quarter of their monthly income on kerosene, and they expose their children to potential burns and fires.

Nuru Energy has developed and is currently delivering a scalable and affordable solution to these problems. Our renewable energy platform is the POWERCycle, the world’s first commercially available pedal generator. Our belief is that human power has not been utilized to its full potential. Human power harnessed and converted into electricity is currently powering thousands of lights and mobile phones in the most remote parts of the world that the grid will NEVER touch.

The model is working for two reasons: 1) because we have designed an innovative delivery model, a scalable, replicable and lucrative microfranchise that puts a local rural entrepreneur “in-charge” of providing and recurrently recharging customer lights, and 2) because human power is limitless, unrelenting and ubiquitous – just like… the human spirit!