Social Impact:

• Access to modern energy services expands social and economic opportunities.
• Local economic development opportunities lead to jobs, small local enterprise opportunities for women and the elimination of female and child labor spent on water and fuel collection.
• Quality of life improvements are made possible through improved lighting, cooking, water quality, water access and indoor air quality and recreation, civil social interaction and education opportunities.

Environmental Impact:

• Generation of clean energy displaces dirty, expensive, dangerous kerosene, diesel, candles, and bunker fuel. Indoor air pollution is decreased or eliminated.
• Carbon credits, while improving global environmental conditions, potentially improve the affordability of modern energy.
• Forestry management prevents deforestation and often results in reforesting degraded areas.
• Eliminating sawdust/biomass waste and operational efficiency improvements eliminate waste dumping and localized ground pollution.

Financial Performance:

• Financial and operating data (revenues, sales, profitability, number of employees) leads to expanding market opportunties, growth and replication.
• Timely loan repayments and collection efficiency increases credit worthiness.

E+Co’s goal is to present a multi-level view of the impacts of its energy enterprises. Through discussions with donors and socially responsible investors we believe that capturing reliable information along these attributes is a critical step in securing continuing and increased support for energy enterprise development.