Odyssey Energy Solutions

Odyssey

Odyssey is a technology company that provides the digital backbone for planning, tracking, deploying and financing off-grid and grid-edge solar solutions. Whether it’s tracking sales and system performance for the millions of systems financed on the platform or helping renewable energy companies access working capital credit and equipment in one simple transaction, Odyssey has a solution to accelerate capital deployment, ensuring more projects are built, faster.  

Shell Foundation has provided support to Odyssey to develop a comprehensive asset management platform to better track, visualize, and target more technologies and use cases, including Productive Use of Energy, Solar Home Systems, and Clean Cooking. This is aimed at improving mini-grid economics and unlocking greater finance for the sector to scale. This technology will benefit Odyssey’s wide user based, including governments that are looking to monitor system performance for results-based financing as well as minigrid developers and investors looking to monitor portfolio performance.

Odyssey’s improved offering will ultimately make more mini-grids possible to address energy access for low income people living in rural and remote parts of Africa currently unelectrified.