Category: Media Coverage
Sphere Solar Energy: Powering Communities from Mercer Island to Kenya
By Eric Laschever Click here to read original article What do a Maasai village, a Puerto Rican school, the City of Mercer Island, and Spark Northwest have in common? The answer: Edwin Wanji, founder of Seattle-based Sphere Solar Energy, a community installer for Spark Northwest’s Solarize Program. Growing up in Kenya, Edwin learned to appreciate […]
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How a Seattle Solar Entrepreneur First Saw the Light in Rural Kenya
by Manola Secaira Click here to read original article Edwin Ngugi Wanji first came across solar panels while dissecting calculators as a kid. Now he’s teaching the power of solar to kids in Seattle and across the world. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. I was born in Nairobi, Kenya. The electrical grid was not […]
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Can Solar Help Safeguard Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico?
by Manola Secaira Click here to read original article The week Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in October 2017, Mark Méndez found himself talking to a friend, Edwin Wanji, in North Seattle’s Hellbent Brewing. While disaster stories and images inundated local TV stations, Méndez knew his own father, the mayor of a Puerto Rican town […]
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Small Business of the Month: Sphere Solar Energy
by Laura Bet Click here to read original article Growing up in Kenya, Edwin Ngugi Wanji says he was the kind of kid who was always “trying to figure out how stuff works.” “A solar panel on my mom’s little calculator was always very fascinating to me, and I pulled a lot of those out […]
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