Head of SME Sales, Starsight Energy, Teme Jack (left), and Executive Director, Corporate Banking, Ecobank, Kola Adeleke, during presentation of sustainability award to Ecobank for achieving 100 Sites.
Starsight Energy, the leading Commercial and Industrial (“C&I”) solar power provider in West Africa, presented its second 2020 Sustainability Award to Ecobank for reaching the milestone of 100+ sites with installed sustainable power, storage, and cooling solutions.
This achievement highlights Ecobank’s commitment to sustainability, as well as Starsight’s ability to help its clients achieve their ESG goals.
Starsight has completed over 500 sites in Nigeria since 2015.
The company currently has 41 MW of installed generating capacity, 33 MWh of battery storage, and 16,320 HP of cooling capacity across Nigeria and Ghana, with new markets anticipated to come online in 2021.
The Executive Director in charge of Corporate Bank at Ecobank Nigeria, Mr Kola Adeleke, has said sustainability remains an essential part of the lender’s mission and vision of building a world-class pan-African bank.
The banker said this while receiving the Starsight Sustainability Award 2020 from the Head of Sales, SMEs at Starsight Energy, Ms Teme Jack, in Lagos recently.
According to him, the Ecobank Group Sustainability framework is focused on four thematic areas which include Economic Transformation, Environmental Sustainability, Socially Responsible Financing and Human Capital Development.
He noted that these focus areas are aligned with the tenets of the Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principles (NSBP), adding that Ecobank is a signatory member of a number of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) framework, including the Equator Principles and the United Nations Global Compact.