Our artist-designed, premium solar products and our social business model benefit communities without electricity worldwide. Founded in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen and launched at London's Tate Modern, we believe in the power of sustainable light and energy to transform lives, especially those 1.1 billion of us who live without access to energy. We are all connected by our need for light, energy and happiness. And we are all connected by the sun. Our Berlin team is based at Studio Olafur Eliasson.

What started as a humble idea to create a small, portable solar lamp for people without electricity in Ethiopia is now a global project that has changed over a million lives through the awesome power of the sun. We strengthen communities from the inside by creating local jobs and generating local profits through our local partners and network of young, African entrepreneurs. For every high-quality solar product sold in an area with electricity, one of our partners or entrepreneurs sells a similar product in their part of the world without electricity at a fair, locally affordable price.