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Aug 28, 2026
We’re the World’s Most Energetic People, Yet Under-Energized
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17:44speaker_1HOST
I would like to know our point became clear to you that finance is one of the individual bottleneck in to energy access.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
Yeah, well, we started Sunfly 2022 and at the time it was very clear because we also in between my stint, you know, in between coming out of Siemens, going into solar, the solar space, did a first business that was like just doing solar installations.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
And there was where we started to learn this lesson that lots of customers between 2019 and 2021 were asking for payment plans because the solutions were way too expensive from a CapEx perspective.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
But when you did your payback periods, we were seeing paybacks of about five years plus for people.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
In the US for context, even with all the feed-in tariffs and everything, energy is cheap enough that customers were seeing 10 year plus payback periods with feed in tariff rebates and so on and so forth.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
So it still made more business sense for or sense for a customer here to get off their petrol or diesel generator.

Rotimi ThomasGUEST
But still, the upfront capex is a lot right in a lower middle income country.
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28:51speaker_1HOST
So I guess I'm moving to how this translates to your impact, right? Your impact first in the energy space and the impact to the community as a whole, right? From what you're doing at Sunfire, what would you say your impact is?