Our Impact – Little Sun
Little Sun has been powered by renewable energy since 2016 – most recently by Norwegian hydropower: Stadtwerke Cottbus. We also contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions in Sub-Saharan
To design and deliver affordable clean energy solutions A marriage of art and science, Little Sun was founded in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen. Their collaboration produced the Little Sun lamp—a small, portable, solar light—that was first distributed to people living without electricity in Ethiopia.
Little Sun powers smallholder farmer productivity in rural Zambia. Little Sun Community Energy Hubs enable smallholder farmers to sell their milk for collection by national dairy companies. Little Sun's agritech offer in the Chibombo province provides farmers with:
Little Sun has worked with humanitarian aid agencies to distribute solar devices to refugees, internally displaced people, and host communities in Ethiopia, Greece, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Ukraine among others. We know that every problem requires a different solution.
Their collaboration produced the Little Sun lamp—a small, portable, solar light—that was first distributed to people living without electricity in Ethiopia. The lamp is a practical tool that enables students to study after dark, mothers to take better care of their children at night, and families to reduce the effects of toxic fumes from fuel.
Little Sun has been powered by renewable energy since 2016 – most recently by Norwegian hydropower: Stadtwerke Cottbus. We also contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions in Sub-Saharan
Little Sun has provided solar energy for water pumping, staple crop processing, cold storage, and food drying to help increases agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers.
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
Little Sun powers smallholder farmer productivity in rural Zambia. Little Sun Community Energy Hubs enable smallholder farmers to sell their milk for collection by national dairy companies. Little Sun''s
Little Sun | 3,640 followers on LinkedIn. We bring clean energy to communities beyond the grid. Productive use of Renewable Energy in Zambia. Founded in 2012. | Little Sun is a social business
Frederik Ottesen developed the Little Sun solar-powered products to bring clean, reliable, afordable light to the 1.1 billion people living without electricity in areas of the world known as ''of-grid''
Is universal access to energy possible? Little Sun, a Berlin-based startup founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen, strongly believes so. — And we know solar has the
Little Sun sells solar devices to raise funds and make solar lights and chargers available to energy-impoverished rural communities in Africa. Their products include the Little Sun Original
Our Vision – Universal access to clean energy Our Mission – To design and deliver affordable clean energy solutions and inspire people to take climate action Little Sun is a non profit organisation and
Their collaboration produced the Little Sun lamp—a small, portable solar light—that was first distributed to people living without electricity in Ethiopia. From then on, our aim was to provide a
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