![]() The motorcycle sector is currently a $30 billion annual market across Sub-Saharan Africa. The initial use cases are in clean energy powered electric motorcycles and stationary backup power needs. Kofa is tackling how people access clean and affordable energy in urban environments across Africa. Looking for his next big challenge, Erik found his way back to Ghana, founding Kofa alongside an initial founding team in 2021. Erik exited the company in early 2019 after they sold the business to Shell. Limejump provides renewable generators and flexible asset owners a route to the ancillary and wholesale markets through sophisticated power purchase agreement products and an agile 24/7 trading and optimization offering. The company, Limejump, crested Britain’s first distributed energy resource aggregation platform for assets such as solar and wind farms as well as grid-scale battery storage. Then, after a period in a corporate role at Centrica in the UK, he took the plunge and founded his own startup. His family moved across West Africa for over 30 years, mainly between Nigeria and Ghana. How did a US/Norwegian national end up founding a business in Ghana with the aim of advancing energy access in Ghana and beyond? Well, Erik Nygard lived in Ghana during his formative years, before going to university in the US and then the UK.
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