Azuri Technologies, a home solar manufacturing company in partnership with Oasis African Resources and the Ministry of Power, has introduced onto the Ghanaian market Pay-As-You-Go Solar Power.

The solar power will enable rural dwellers engaged in income generating activities to enhance their business operations. About hundred thousand households not captured on the national grid would be provided reliable power.

The project, which is expected to take off middle of this year, will deploy Azuri’s flagship product – Quad – and four high-quality LED lamps, mobile phone charging and Radio/MP3 players to the households.

Users would however, have to pay for the power they use monthly through the mobile money transfer services over a period of two years to fully own it.

Speaking with Joy Business at the launch, Chief Executive Officer of Azuri Simon Bansfield-Garth said his company is on a mission not to only illuminate rural communities but create jobs in their supply chain for Ghanaians.

Data available indicates that about five million of Ghana’s population in rural areas have no access to electricity.

“Oasis African Resources is actively looking for organizations and partners who will assist with that process of taking that down into the market and expanding the local community and the employment base in Ghana in distributing these products,” he added.

Mr. Bansfield-Garth asserted that the systems are tremendously reliable because the lights used were co-developed with Philips. “They are some of the best Light-Emitting Diode - LEDs you can buy. The batteries are Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Technology – the same technology as you get in electric cars so we’re using the very latest generation technology.”

CEO of Oasis Isaac Kodom stated that his company has a vision to become a leading private power solutions company that delivers outstanding, innovative products to meet the demands of today’s energy provision.

Director of Renewable and Alternative Energy at the Power Ministry, Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo described the project as a great news for businesses in rural-Ghana.

“You can be sure that the first off-takers of this product will be people who have shops and those who are engaged in some income generating activity that requires light to do that business. So naturally this product will go a long way to enhance that business opportunity for them,” he noted.