Nicole Poindexter

Nicole Poindexter is the founder and CEO of Energicity Corp, a U.S. based company that builds and operates solar-powered minigrid utility providing rural, off-grid communities in Sierra Leone, Benin, Liberia and Nigeria with affordable, sustainable electric power.

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There's a Way to End Energy Poverty—And It Has the Side Effect of Making Fossil Fuels Obsolete

You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries give out, she resorts to a...

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