This past Saturday (April 17th) at Yale’s University’s School of Management, MEC’s James Dailey spoke to a group of leading practicioners and experts on connecting financing with clean energy for people in low-resource settings. The Conference offered a chance to make new connections and discuss MEC’s innovative approach to partnerships with MFIs to achieve carbon [...]
Author Archives: James Dailey
Feb
25
MEC is Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-finalist
Each year a distinguished jury at Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. MEC is excited to learn that we have been selected as a semi-finalist for 2010 based on our innovative approach to accelerating [...]
Nov
30
MEC licensing SMS web technology
MicroEnery Credits’ technology was on display recently at the Tropical Disease conference in Washington DC on November 20th. We licensed our unique SMS intelligent gateway to a major Health Systems organization as part of an effort to track anti-Malaria medicines administered in Malawi. Because our “last mile technology” solves a common problem for [...]
Apr
12
Clean Development Mechanism for Bottom of the Pyramid
Co-founder April Allderdice is interviewed March 4, 2009 by Aileen Nowlan for Next Billion, in an article about Clean Development Mechanism for Bottom of the Pyramid.
More posts moving over from http://microenergycredits.blogspot.com/
Contact MicroEnergy Credits at info @ microenergycredit DOT com.
Feb
23
Schools in Uganda are Solar Enterprises
While working in Uganda for the past two weeks, I visited the Aunt Agnes Infant School which recently purchased a solar photovoltaic system and is part of FINCA Uganda’s Microfinance Carbon Portfolio.
In Uganda where many schools are private, a school owner is a microenterprise, and a microfinance loan can help them make investments in infrastructure [...]
Dec
16
More MFIs enlist in Microfinance-Carbon Program
MEC’s pipeline is growing. Our most recent partner is XacBank in Mongolia, who found us through the Energy Links Podcast, an initiative of ACCION’s Center For Financial Inclusion, and USAID’s FIELD program. You can listen to our podcast here.
XacBank is a well established microfinance institution with over 100,000 clients. The temperature now in Ulan Bator [...]
Nov
08
MEC presents at Web 2.0 Summit
MEC presented at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The theme of the panel was location aware applications for mobile devices. This was a great chance to think big thoughts about how trends in technology adoption have enabled our social enterprise, and in turn how applications like ours may impact markets in the future.
Although [...]
Oct
20
SoCap 2008 Creating Value
The Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco September 2008 was an opportunity for MEC to meet up with other entrepreneurs working at the intersection of business and human progress. Coming in the midst of a growing financial crisis, many commented that the strong attendance was an indication that from the crisis could come a [...]
Sep
02
The Challenge of Low Carbon Investing in Developing Countries
MicroEnergy Credits was mentioned in Climate Wire today in a fascinating article by Lisa Friedman about the challenges of low-carbon investment in developing countries:
“April Allderdice, an adviser to Grameen Shakti and president of MicroEnergy Credits in Seattle, said the influx of renewable energy in a country where 70 percent of the population has no access [...]
Jun
05
Incremental Software Development Key To Success
One of the challenges as the CTO of Micro Energy Credits is building from the ground up with minimal resources. This is a challenge nearly all start ups face, but is perhaps even more pronounced in this phase of development.
Each decision to invest in a software development effort starts with the question, can we find [...]
