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

CEO and Co-Founder

April Allderdice

CEO and Co-Founder

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 Financial Officer (CFO)

NARENDRA PRAJAPATI

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Over the past 15 years, Narendra has worked with reputed organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hinduja Group, Fortune Finance, Nexia & Gravita in various roles. His expertise are in Fund Raising, Financial Planning & Management, Business Strategy, MIS & Budgeting.

SRISKANDH SUBRAMANIAN

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)

SRISKANDH SUBRAMANIAN

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)

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.

Gaurav Chakraverty

Chief Growth & Marketing Officer (CGMO)

Gaurav Chakraverty

Chief Growth & Marketing Officer (CGMO)

Gaurav is an enterprising and dynamic leader with 21+ years experience in driving large engagements such as ICT for Development, Rural Development, Financial Inclusion, BFSI, Social Entrepreneurship, & Livelihood Development. Before MEC, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Grameen Foundation India and has worked in organizations like Drishtee, TERI & FINO.

PRANTIK MITRA

Director - Applied Sciences and Business Innovations; Strategy

PRANTIK MITRA

Director - Applied Sciences and Business Innovations; Strategy

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.

Sagar Mahapatra

Director - Operations

Sagar Mahapatra

Director - Operations

Sagar has an unwavering passion for catalyzing positive social change and sustainable solutions within the social development and climate change space. His extensive background encompasses roles as a Decentralized Renewable Energy entrepreneur, startup mentor, and project/program management expert, making him a unique and impactful force in the field.

Garima Dawer

Director - Communications

Garima Dawer

Director - Communications

Garima has 13+ years of extensive and progressive experience in leading communications across a range of industries- academic, social, corporate and start-ups. At MEC, she leads strategic communications, branding and content, perception and stakeholder relations, corporate communications, and the digital & social media program.

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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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