How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
There has been a lot of work exploring why some pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar customers stop paying after they are...
The power of flexibility: How innovative payment models can expand access to energy services
In the past eight years, over 10 million people in emerging economies have acquired modern energy for the first...
The Best of Both Worlds: Decoupling Financing from Distribution through FSP-Led PAYGo
In just eight years over three million PAYGo solar systems have been sold, and over $1B has been...
The Potential of PAYGo for Achieving Water and Sanitation for All (SDG 6)
To “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all (SDG 6),” water service providers need to...
Artificial Intelligence: Practical Superpowers
With knowledge comes power. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful way to harness data into knowledge and into action....
Machine Learning in PAYGo: What You Need to Know Before You Jump In
Last summer, we published a post that described how ZOLA Electric uses Machine Learning (ML) to predict which of...
Prosper: A Product Innovation to Link PAYGo Customers to MFIs
BrightLife, FINCA Uganda, and FIBR are innovating to develop solutions that bridge the gap between microfinance and pay-as-you-go (PAYGo)...
Rethinking Agents to Scale PAYGo Businesses
How to Leverage Agents for Critical Customer Relationship Management Field agents have been critical to expanding digital...
FIBR’s Next Generation of Linkages to Financial Services: Betting on PAYGo
The Promise of Tangible, Flexible and Sustainable Services FIBR is a learning-driven program that seeks to discover how digitizing...
Why MFIs will (Finally) Crack the Solar Market
We have long hoped that microfinance would hold the key to unlocking access to energy for low-income households....