About SparkMeter
SparkMeter (www.sparkmeter.io) is a venture-backed company that was founded in late 2013. SparkMeter provides smart metering solutions tailor-made for rural and central utilities in developing markets, where 2.1 billion people live without reliable electricity access. The simple plug-and-play solution enables utilities operating in remote locations to access a range of features – prepaid billing, customer communications, and remote monitoring and control – that improve their operations and help them achieve financial sustainability. Our metering system is being widely adopted by utilities serving customers in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our Mission & Values
SparkMeter’s core value is opportunity: the opportunity for underserved communities to achieve great things. Our mission is to increase access to electricity in underserved communities. Electricity and the services derived from it unlock and create those opportunities.
What Are Energy Poverty and Electricity Access?
Energy poverty is the circumstance of depending on low quality fuels and inefficient end-uses, or conversely, the lack of access to modern energy services. Energy poverty is one of the defining global issues of our time, and access to electricity is essential to eradicating energy poverty and empowering individuals, communities and economies, to reach their potential.
The strong rate of diminishing marginal benefit to the Human Development Index (HDI) from per capita electricity consumption is striking, with a sharp increase in HDI within the first few kilowatt-hours per capita of annual consumption.
From micro-grids to central grid extensions, there’s incredible work being done all over the world to bring electricity access to underserved communities. At SparkMeter, we’re here to design, build, and refine technology to help utilities manage and run sustainable and high-quality power systems and businesses.
