UpEnergy today announced a debt investment from the Global Hearthworks Foundation (GHWF), a non-profit organization that supports market-based enterprises involved in bringing improved cookstoves and sustainable fuels to consumers in […]
At the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative, UpEnergy committed to radical scale up of its activities in Uganda, with the aim to serve 1 million people by 2016. This translates into […]
UpEnergy was recently approved by KIVA to administer micro loans to high potential partners to buy cook stoves and solar lamps. UpEnergy partners will now be able to leverage consumer […]
Out of a total of 75 applications from across the globe, UpEnergy is proud to announce that it was among 6 orgarnizations selected to receive a pilot innovation grant from […]
UpEnergy is proud to announce that it was selected as a 2013 Unreasonable Institute Fellow out of a pool of 227 ventures from 47 countries. The Unreasonable Institute offers entrepreneurs […]
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and executed by 7 leading research institutions including Harvard University and the World Health Organization, […]
SmartHome, UpEnergy’s Uganda brand, has experienced significant coverage in Uganda’s leading media outlets in 2012. In March, SmartHome was featured on Ugandan public television’s Saturday afternoon programing. On a lively talk show, […]
UpEnergy has been selected as a featured social enterprise for the upcoming SOCAP 12 event in San Francisco, Oct. 1-4 2012. SOCAP is a world-renowned conference series dedicated to increasing the flow of […]
COLOGNE | Germany | 8 June | Indoor pollution from coal-, dung- and wood-burning stoves and fire pits kills nearly two million people each year – including half of all children under the […]
The rise of for-profit social enterprises has been quite exciting. Although I’m firmly on the nonprofit side with Benetech (because we focus on big issues where the market is failing), […]
San Francisco, USA and Zürich, Switzerland – Up Energy Group, Inc. (UpEnergy), a social enterprise that distributes and sells efficient household energy products in the developing world at affordable prices […]
Swiss-based carbon offset seller myclimate has signed a $2.5 million deal to buy U.N.-backed carbon credits until 2018 from a programme that distributes fuel efficient cookstoves in El Salvador, the […]