Solar Home System Market Landscape in Mozambique
Solar Home System Market Landscape
Private sector
The SHS market has expanded greatly since 2017 and new players are entering the market. In 2018, there were around 20 companies selling certified SHS in Mozambique[1]. According to the data from Lighting Global’s quarterly off-grid sales report, SHS sales increased from 13,178 units in 2017 to 39,304 units in 2020[2][3]. This number can be expected to be much higher as the data is based on selected GOGLA members and companies selling products that meet Lighting Global Quality Standards and those that participated in the survey. The results also only included sales data from manufacturers to avoid double counting.
Until date (June 2021), the market is dominated by five major solar companies that provide SHS on pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) basis as well as direct cash sales. Solarworks! was the first to start operations in 2017 followed by Epsilon in 2018, Fenix Intl in 2019 and Ignite and Digitech in 2020. These companies are a mix of manufactures (SolarWorks! and Fenix Intl) who sell their own brand products and distributors (Ignite, Epsilon and Digitech) who sell other companies’ brand products. Together, they have sold over 70,000 SHS units from 2017 until the end of 2020. They also cover all 11 provinces in Mozambique. Further companies active in the SHS market include for example Green Watts and Fosera.
Table 1 shows the number of SHS sold by each company until 2020 as well as the types of products they offer.
- ↑ Greenlight, “Mozambique – Off-Grid Energy Market Assessment.”
- ↑ Lighting Global et al., “Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report Semi-Annual Sales and Impact Data | July-December 2020”; GOGLA et al., “Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report Semi-Annual Sales and Impact Data | January - June 2020.”
- ↑ No data was recorded for the first quarter of 2018 and 2019 due to confidentiality of the data i.e for the data to be considered, there has to be more than three companies taking part in the GOGLA survey. Thus, this section only shows the data from 2017 and 2020 for comparison
