Tombo Banda is a mechanical engineer from Malawi whose interest in energy started after watching electricity reach her hometown of Zomba in 1994 and change daily life for the better. At CrossBoundary, she focuses on pairing power access with ways for people to actually use it productively, testing ideas like appliance financing, second-life EV batteries, smart inverters, and AI-based load tracking, while also pointing to e-mobility as a major opportunity tied to mini-grid growth.
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CrossBoundary finances, owns, and runs clean power projects itself instead of just investing in companies, using project-finance and long-term contracts—including a first-of-its-kind solar-and-battery baseload plant for mining in the DRC—to replace diesel with fixed-price power for miners over 15-20 years, which can cut their energy costs by up to 50%. It has also built credibility by licensing solar power agreements early in frontier markets like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sierra Leone, and by bringing this same approach to blue-chip industrial clients such as Unilever, Diageo, Rio Tinto, Heineken, and AB InBev.
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