Nate Heller has over 15 years of experience in international social enterprise and development, including seven years building innovative distribution channels for poor consumers in West Africa, and stints with the Peace Corps and the UN. He speaks 6 languages, including French, and has a Masters from Johns Hopkins SAIS and an MBA from Yale. In his concept, Nate Heller provides solar home systems on credit to households in West Africa. Using a unique financing approach, called ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing for enabling customers to replace their perpetual spending on poor-quality polluting fuels, such as kerosene, with solar energy that quickly becomes an asset the customer owns. Today, more than 200 000 people are covered by that system. Nate has over 13 years of experience in international development, including stints with the UN, the Peace Corps, and multiple social enterprises around the world. He spent six of those years building innovative distribution channels for poor consumers in West Africa.

Nate founds with Hugh Whalan PEG Africa.

His company distributes solar panels in rural and peri-urban communities in West Africa.

In order to make this energy available to all, PEG Africa operates based on a daily payment by users (less than 280 cfa per day).

Once the system is fully paid the user becomes the owner.

Nate Heller is fluent in six languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Wolof. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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