Challenge
CBG wanted to raise brand awareness, elevate its business development efforts and position CrossBoundary Energy Access as Africa’s first successful blended project finance facility for solar Mini-grids.
Our work
- We proposed the idea to exclusively pitch to NextBillion.
- Pitched the Mini-grid Innovation Lab Prototypes to NextBillion as part of their “New Frontiers in Renewable Energy” Series, Tariff reduction, Appliance financing and Predicting consumption.
- We drafted and posted the accompanying social media messages.
Impact
- The press release was covered by credible media including Africa Capital Digest, Africa Private Equity, Afrik21, Alt Africa, PV Magazine, and PV Tech amongst others.
- The tariff reduction blog received 3,067 coverage views.
- The appliance prototype recorded the highest number of coverage views and social shares and was voted the 3rdmost influential blog of 2019.
- CBEA’s first transaction with PowerGen had an online reach of 281,000.