Zasolar

Providing clean energy alternatives
2023 SEED Climate Adaptation Award Clean Energy Malawi

Zasolar provides clean energy solutions to people in last-mile rural areas, peri-urban and urban areas that are off-grid or facing challenges. The company offers the design and installation of pay-as-you-go solar home systems, including customised systems. Zasolar also sells sustainable charcoal, briquettes made from waste, and cookstoves.

The enterprise collaborates with local agents for solar home systems and partners with local companies and community groups to produce sustainable charcoal, briquettes, and cookstoves.

Eco-Inclusive Impacts
Zasolar provides clean energy alternatives to firewood and charcoal for rural communities. The company tackles deforestation and contributes to the restoration of biodiversity in Malawi.

Zasolar provides clean energy alternatives to firewood and charcoal, therefore reducing deforestation. Their briquettes are made from organic waste, reducing CO2 emissions in households. The youth-led business offers training on clean energy solutions and employs women and youth in rural areas of Malawi.
  • Offering training on clean energy solutions to women and youth in rural areas

 

  • Providing clean energy alternatives to firewood and charcoal, which causes deforestation
  • Reducing CO2 emissions by producing briquettes made from organic waste
  • Providing income for women and youth in rural areas

 

Partners

This enterprise is supported through its partnerships with various stakeholders, ranging from national and international organisations, investors, research institutes, suppliers, governmental bodies, NGOs, other social and environmental enterprises and more.

Kawandama Hills supplies the company with sustainable charcoal that they distribute.

Dziwani Investments supplies the enterprise with cookstoves that they distribute.

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Fishani Msiska
Tel: +265884485314
http://www.zasolarmw.org/

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