Starsight, the leading Commercial and Industrial (“C&I”) solar power provider in West Africa, is delighted to announce its expansion into Ghana.
Starsight’s Accra team will build on the Company’s extensive track record to provide Ghanaian businesses with professional, comprehensive, energy-as-a-service expertise. Starsight’s solutions optimize power consumption enabling a customer to significantly reduce costs and boost profitability without incurring any upfront expense. This frees up capex for our customer’s core business.
Emmanuel Ayifa Baah, a highly seasoned renewable energy executive, is leading Starsight’s business expansion in Ghana. “The Ghanaian market represents an incredible opportunity for an energy-as-a-service giant like Starsight. We look forward to delivering the best service in clean and reliable power to the country’s growing industrial, financial, consumer, and residential sectors.”
Starsight has developed leading technology and a deep in-house capability for designing C&I solutions, having completed over 400 sites in Nigeria since 2015. The Company currently has 34 MW of installed generating capacity and 25 MWh of storage and is backed by leading African Private Equity firms Helios Investment Partners and Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers
Tony Carr, Starsight CEO, commented, “Starsight’s expansion into Ghana represents a major step forward in its vision to generate clean energy for Africa’s future. Our operations in Ghana will be guided by the same values that made us the market leader in Nigeria: integrity, unrivalled performance, and a commitment to long-term partnerships with our clients.”
About Starsight
Founded in 2015, Starsight is the leading West African Commercial & Industrial (C&I) energy-as-a-service provider. It has deployed approximately 34 MW of generation assets and 25 MWh of storage at over 400 sites in all Nigerian states and Ghana. The Company’s team of highly experienced professionals provides power solutions to a diverse clientele, including banks, gas stations, schools, and large commercial agricultural companies. Starsight’s proprietary smart technology optimizes energy consumption enabling customers to significantly reduce energy costs and boost profitability without incurring any upfront expense. Starsight delivers an end-to-end service, starting with assessing a client’s energy needs to the installation and maintenance of a renewable energy solution. This is then followed by ongoing technical support. Starsight’s long-term relationships with its blue-chip clients reflect the quality of its in-house engineering, procurement, and construction services, along with the reliability of its operations, maintenance, and customer service. Together these provide customers with the peace of mind that all their power-related issues are in trustworthy hands.
Starsight has consistently maintained the highest ESG credentials and continues to reduce its customers’ carbon footprint and harmful diesel emissions. The Company is backed by Helios Investment Partners and Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers.