{"id":171773,"date":"2010-01-12T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5446471"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:15:00","slug":"egg-energy-takes-netflix-style-approach-to-supplying-power-in-the-developing-world-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/171773","title":{"rendered":"Egg Energy Takes Netflix-Style Approach To Supplying Power In The Developing World [Batteries]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Created by a team from MIT and Harvard, Egg Energy<\/a> is taking the Netflix style subscription model and applying it to a very unique for-profit business: supplying energy for populations in developing countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure about the value of a dollar in Tanzania, but the Egg Energy’s service seems like a decent deal. For a $27 first-year subscription, customers will get their home wired for electricity and receive a fully-charged, relatively compact battery that can be swapped out for a fresh one at a cost of 40 cents. As Earth2Tech<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n

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The company explains in its executive summary that its target customer spends $5 per month on kerosene and $3 per month on AA batteries, with an average total of $96 per year for lighting and the use of a radio. But with eight swaps per month, the annual cost of the service in total is $65. “Switching to EGG-energy therefore saves a typical household $30.60 a year on its lighting and radio needs,” says the company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first Egg Energy distribution center is already up and running on a well-trafficked route in rural Tanzania. They have acquired 60 customers since November and plan a rapid expansion in the coming year. [Egg Energy on Facebook<\/a> via Eart2Tech<\/a> via @Timoreilly<\/a> via @TomRaferty<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Created by a team from MIT and Harvard, Egg Energy is taking the Netflix style subscription model and applying it to a very unique for-profit business: supplying energy for populations in developing countries. I’m not sure about the value of a dollar in Tanzania, but the Egg Energy’s service seems like a decent deal. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}