Providing more than 2,700,000 people living off-grid with affordable, sustainable, pre-paid solar energy.
More than 1.2 billion people across the globe lack access to electricity. Kingo has developed an efficient, next-generation solution to deliver energy through a prepaid solar service that is cheaper than candles, kerosene, and diesel. By combining state-of-the-art hardware, software, and commercial innovation, Kingo is enabling people living off-grid to improve connectivity, productivity, and quality of life. While many families living off-grid will spend $15 per month on candles, Kingo's technology reduces the amount of money spent on lighting to just $8 per month. To date, Kingo has provided solar energy to over 2.7 million people and expects to provide energy to more than 100 million homes by 2035.
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Press Mentions
June 22, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: Cannes Lions 2018 awards 'Kingo' by Ogilvy Colombia, Kingo Energy, and Ogilvy Guatemala Product Design Lions Grand Prix
CANNES - The Product Design Lions celebrate creativity that fuses form and function. Entries need to demonstrate aesthetics that are inseparable from application; that is work that blurs the line...
Read more »April 26, 2018
Leonardo DiCaprio's latest venture seeks to bring rural dwellers out of the dark
"They’re just like us — they just want a better quality of life."
Read on Mashable »April 26, 2018
Leonardo DiCaprio backs off-grid solar firm Kingo
April 26 (Renewables Now) - American actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Kingo Energy, a
Read on Renewablesnow.com »April 26, 2018
Leo DiCaprio’s latest investment: off-grid solar for rural communities
He’s best known as an actor but for the last 20 years Leonardo DiCaprio has established himself as a sustainability advocate, and one of the strongest celebrity supporters for any environmental...
Read on Fast Company »August 5, 2016
These Startups Are Out To End Global Illiteracy, An Often Ignored Problem
On a farm in California, entrepreneurs from all over the world came together to tackle a challenge that isn’t usually in the spotlight.
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