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Rural Kenya including Lake Victoria fishing communities (e.g. Remba island); company based near Nairobi

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Practices in Rural Kenya including Lake Victoria fishing communities (e.g. Remba island); company based near Nairobi

SteamaCo smart-metering platform for rural solar mini-gridsSteamaCo began in 2012 as a developer of rural mini-grids in Kenya (with origins in the NGO Access:Energy, founded in 2009 on the shores of Lake Victoria; first microgrid with smart metering in 2013 on Remba Island) and later pivoted to a smart metering and remote management software company. Its cloud platform lets independent operators sell energy on prepaid accounts with mobile money, monitor consumption in real time and detect faults remotely. The pivot from asset owner to software provider is the innovation lesson. In 2024 it acquired Shyft Power Solutions.● Active· scale subnational