Since taking over as the President and CEO in January 2022, Patrick Tamia Tewuleh has lead a successful initiative providing Liberian artisanal fishermen with solar power systems for use on their fishing boats to improve productivity and safety at sea. The pilot for this innovative initiative is funded by USAID Power Africa and uses systems …
A nurse with the new WoW Solar 60 Lighting System before it was installed at the Camphor Mission Station Clinic.
LEN recently completed installation of a off-grid solar power system at an orphanage in the town of Voinjama, upper Lofa County, Liberia. Voinjama is located near the Guinea border in the far northwestern corner of Liberia beyond the current reach of the national grid, and is unlikely to be connected for many years. The installation …
Often once an off-grid photovoltaic solar system is installed, it fails because there is no plan to keep it running. LEN was retained by Save the Children to evaluate this failed system which had been inoperable for several years at one of their schools in the Liberian port city of Buchanan. Arriving at the site …
Kolahun Hospital is located in the northwest corner of Liberia on the border of Sierra Leone and Guinea. It serve 100,000 people in the rural areas of those three countries. Until March 24, 2019 it had no access to reliable light and power, resulting in unnecessary deaths and suffering for patients who could not be …
LEN is the subject of a feature article in the solar industry publication Clean Technica: Lighting Liberia: A Look At The Liberian Energy Network – August 2nd, 2019 by Winter Wilson
To better serve customers and accomodate expanding operations, LEN has moved to a new location in the Monrovia Suburb of Paynesville. The new Somalia Drive facility doubles the size of LEN’s warehouse capacity, provides for expanded retail sales and office space , with room to accomodate future growth. The new location is near the Red …
After successfully completing an intense nine month program for social entrepreneurs with the GE Helathymagination program and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, LEN presented its business plan to investors at the 5th Sanklap African Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on March 1, 2018. The Summit is one of the largest gatherings of …
LEN entered into a memorandum of understanding with Mercy Corps, one of the largest aid agencies in the world, to provide off-grid solar lighting and power in Liberia using pay-as-you-go and mobile money technologies. With support from Mercy Corps Liberia, LEN is implementing a pilot of these new technologies, which will expand access for Liberians …
In December, the Liberian Rural Renewable Energy Agency acknowledged LEN as the largest distributor of off-grid solar for 2017 in Liberia. As the market pioneer, LEN in its seven years of continuous operations has provided 70,000 Liberians access to power and light.