Ethiopian business publication Birr Metrics has published an in-depth profile of Green Scene Energy founder and CEO Rekik Bekele. It is currently the lead story in its Startups section.
“The Woman Trying to Electrify a System That Won’t Power Her”
Birr Metrics, Startups lead story
From a first field assignment in Axum to a manufacturing line in Addis
The feature traces her route from a young electrical engineer on her first field assignment in Axum, through years of rural solar installation work across Ethiopia, to founding Green Scene in 2016 and building it into a company that has reached more than 100,000 households, launched Ethiopia’s first locally assembled induction stove, and now sits at the meeting point of the country’s clean energy and manufacturing ambitions.
The piece is also honest about what Ethiopian clean-tech manufacturers are up against: financing, foreign exchange and supply chains. Implementation, not ambition, is where the real work of the green transition happens.
