Agsol is an award winning social business incorporated in 2016 by long-term collaborators and friends, Matt Carr and Greg Denn. Combined, they have spent more than 40 years working in the agricultural and renewable energy sectors across three continents. Agsol is committed to providing agricultural and energy access solutions to off-grid farming communities across the world. As a social enterprise Agsol keeps its drive for social impact at the core of what it does and commits to reinvest the majority of any profits into furthering its social mission.
About
We are committed to engineering high-quality products that bring positive change to the world.
HISTORY
Agsol developed from an established Papua New Guinean (PNG) business, Project Support Services (PSS), that had been manufacturing and supplying agricultural machinery and solar technologies in PNG and Pacific markets since 2001. Agsol was formed in 2016 to build on the early successes that PSS had with “solarising” small agro-processing machines and to take these technologies to a global market.
The first products were developed in 2015 and comprised small agro-processing machines retrofitted with 24 volt motors and control systems (see video below). After more than 800 solar machine sales and lots of feedback and iterations, we continue to apply this information to design the best machines of their kind in the world.
Agsol established itself in Kenya in mid 2018 to target the East African market, specifically related to grain milling. We presently offer our Village Mill product line, designed to serve mini-grids and large (>2kW) solar systems and we are field trialling our new MicroMill for standalone solar. Our primary R&D and manufacturing facility is located in China.
PARTNERS
We partner with in-country solar companies, agricultural machinery suppliers, micro-utility providers, project developers and investors to deploy our unique machines in rural markets. Our approach enables delivery of productive machines and the renewable energy systems that power them, to communities far beyond the reach of the grid.