About MEC | Micro Energy Credits

How it works

A climate solution powered by women micro entrepreneurs.

MEC empowers microentrepreneurs, mostly women, to access affordable clean energy such as solar lighting, efficient stoves and water purifiers.

Corporations and sovereigns committed to positive climate action provide critical funds which are deployed on local clean energy demonstrators, last mile distribution and after sales service.

Catalyzing the shift to clean
energy and preventing deforestation

MEC’ s mission is empowering microentreneurs to access affordable clean energy such as affordable solar lighting, efficient stoves and waterpurifiers, with a focus on women. The biggest barrier these communities face in adopting clean energy is access to finance. MEC overcomes this barrier by providing a unique program of financial and technical support to a broad network of local financial inclusion and social impact institutions and other providers in Asia and Africa who can offer funding for clean energy.

Funding for communities of
women microentrepreneurs

MEC’s program empowers its financial inclusion partners to overcome the barriers to clean energy financing by deploying financial support and training in the areas of clean energy awareness building, last mile distribution and provision of after sales service. These resources are used to hire tens of thousands of local demonstrators who earn income while spreading awareness of clean energy. Once these barriers are overcome, the partner institutions use private capital to offer funding for clean energy. This leverages each dollar of carbon funding 10x, and catalyzes an influx of green economic growth in the economies of the local communities. Communities increase their savings, obtain green jobs, and build their access to credit, in addition to realizing health and education benefits.

High quality social
impact carbon credits

MEC uses a cloud based technology to track the carbon emission reductions when these communities shift from kerosene and deforestation practices to clean energy. This enables MEC to provide high quality social impact carbon credits to corporations and sovereigns.

Our Leadership Team

The MEC Leadership Team is a dynamic group of forward-looking, credible, diverse and recognized leaders with years of robust experience.

April Allderdice

Co-Founder and Board Member

April Allderdice

Co-Founder and Board Member

April is a leading entrepreneur in clean energy finance. She pioneered distributed solar finance with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and worked in large scale electric utilities with McKinsey and Co. As a cofounder of MEC she innovated a safe and scalable platform for financial institutions to provide clean energy loans to rural households.

James Dailey

Co-Founder

James Dailey

Co-Founder

James is a Director and Co-Founder of MEC.

NARENDRA PRAJAPATI

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

NARENDRA PRAJAPATI

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Narendra Prajapati is an accomplished financial strategist with over two decades of experience across diverse industries, including renewable energy, manufacturing, consulting, and financial services. A passionate advocate for innovation and sustainability, he plays a pivotal role in aligning MEC's financial strategy with its broader mission.

SRISKANDH SUBRAMANIAN

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) & Board Chair

SRISKANDH SUBRAMANIAN

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) & Board Chair

Sriskandh oversees the carbon program of MEC. He has worked on global sustainability issues for over 15 years. He has previously worked as the Head of Standard Development at the Gold Standard Foundation and serves on the Registration and Issuance Team of the UNFCCC.

Lucila Serra

Director, Carbon Markets

Lucila Serra

Director, Carbon Markets

Lucila is an attorney with 20+ years of experience in climate change, climate finance, and carbon markets. She has experience working across government, international organizations, climate funds, and the private sector, and is a UNFCCC Technical Expert Reviewer credentialed for Article 6 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).

Prashant Khanna

Director, Partnerships

Prashant Khanna

Director, Partnerships

Prashant leads strategic alliances across MEC’s portfolio. With over 21 years in strategic partnerships, government relations, and climate finance, he brings a rare combination of public-sector fluency and commercial rigor. His track record of turning relationships into scaled impact programs drives MEC's partnership-led growth.

Jacinta Nyambura

Regional Director, Africa

Jacinta Nyambura

Regional Director, Africa

For over 18 years, Jacinta has walked and sat alongside last-mile communities, governments, and partners across the African continent, listening, learning, and championing social impact and partnerships for development. She believes that every person deserves dignity, every community deserves opportunity, and that the planet must be allowed to thrive.

PRANTIK MITRA

Director, Strategy & Innovation

PRANTIK MITRA

Director, Strategy & Innovation

Prantik is a Google certified Project Management professional & holds certificates in Machine Learning and Data Science from Stanford University with years of experience in strategic advisory, product management and techno-economic consulting in the field.

Garima Dawer

Director, Communications

Garima Dawer

Director, Communications

Garima has 15+ years of experience shaping communications across academic, social, corporate, and startup environments. At MEC, she helps shape organizational and market strategy, leading communications, brand positioning, stakeholder engagement, and content, translating MEC’s strategic priorities into a strong market presence.

Join Us

Interested in a career with MEC?

At MEC we believe in finding the balance between working to live and living to work. Diversity of our workforce is one of our core values at MEC so that we may reflect the communities that we serve. We co-create a culture of inclusion and respect that enables us to attract and keep top talent.

The values that help us deliver:

Serving humanity and the planet. Our goal is not less than stopping climate change and poverty. We do this by impacting markets, supply chains, information flows and unlocking human capital.
Great communication leads to great ideas. We all have access to the people, information, and resources we need to get the job done.
Everyone at MEC is a leader, making the people and teams around them extraordinary. MEC team members are excellent communicators, agile problem solvers, trusted colleagues and inspiring leaders.
Building our culture together. We take risks, make decisions quickly, share mistakes broadly, and learn from them openly. We create our culture together at team retreats where everyone’s voice matters.

We go above and beyond to offer our team amazing benefits, including our annual strategy retreat in Goa.

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