2025 EBL Global Final

Statistics

150+

Teams

25

Finalists

1

Grand Prize
Winner

Grand Prize

Redefining urban mobility in West Africa.

Emergi

Emergi (Liberia) is building Africa’s first women-driven electric mobility service. The company trains and employs women as professional e-tuk-tuk drivers, operates solar-powered charging hubs, and deploys a smart ride-hailing and fleet-management system designed for African cities. During its field operations in Liberia, Emergi demonstrated 100% charging uptime, over 40% solar utilization even during the rainy season, and strong user demand for safe, reliable, women-driven transport. Its affordable lease-to-use model unlocks dignified income for women while providing quieter, cleaner mobility for passengers. By combining technology, solar infrastructure, and policy advocacy, Emergi is creating a scalable blueprint for inclusive, climate-friendly mobility across the region, with Liberia as its first hub and Sierra Leone next.

www.emergi.info

Best Control, Automation, and Cyber-Physical Solution (Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society)

Clarity and Intelligence for Smarter Energy

Oversight

The Oversight team (Sri Lanka) brings together deep domain expertise in energy systems and advanced software engineering, built over more than a decade of hands-on experience in renewable energy infrastructure. The core team includes engineers and researchers specializing in power systems, AI and machine learning, embedded systems, and cloud platforms, combining real-world deployment experience with strong technical depth. Having worked directly on rooftop solar, mini-grids, batteries, EV chargers, and utility collaborations, the team understands grid challenges firsthand and builds technology grounded in operational reality. This blend of energy domain knowledge and scalable software capability enables the team to design practical, production-ready solutions for utilities, EPCs, and emerging-market energy systems.

https://www.oversightems.com/

Energy Supply Track Winner

Energy Access enabling customers to be both consumers and prosumers of electricity.

Peco Power

Peco Power is a South African renewable-energy company that designs and manufactures modular, solar-powered electrification systems aimed at expanding access to affordable and sustainable electricity across underserved communities. Spun out of the University of the Witwatersrand, its flagship PowerBrick™ solutions are plug-and-play, robust, and scalable, supporting households, small businesses, and local energy networks with clean power. Peco also develops digital tools to help users and community partners manage energy systems, and its initiatives include rent-to-own models that empower local champions to drive energy access and economic opportunity.

https://www.pecopower.co.za/

End Use of Energy Track Winner

Value stacking solutions

SheTOSS

SheTOSS (Senegal) installs and maintains prefabricated biodigesters at smallholder farmers so they can create value out of their cow dung, namely by giving them direct access to a clean cooking solution in the form of biogas through bio-digestion, and secondly trains them to convert the bioslurry into bio-compost (called ‘Toss’ in the local language) which they can use to improve soil quality and water retention, thus increasing their harvests by >50%. If they do not grow their own crops, they earn extra income by selling the compost. SheToss provides capacity building, training, and service and has a nationwide distribution chain with service hubs all coordinated, monitored and evaluated with the help of a sophisticated mobile app and dashboard to register clients and plan follow up visits and repairs. Every digester will be audited, and quality monitored digitally.

Local Entrepreneurship Track Winner

Reducing post-harvest losses for small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through solar cooling.

Munkaylo Agrotech

The Munkaylo Agrotech (Uganda) model is designed to empower rural communities, especially smallholder farmers, through inclusive energy access and entrepreneurial engagement. Operating a network of solar-powered, IoT-enabled cold storage hubs extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables for 124,000 customers.

https://munakyaloagrofresh.com/

Energy Resilience Track Winner

Providing solar energy solutions designed to efficiently address the energy needs of the off-grid and marginalized communities in Southeast Asia.

ATUTU

Provides specifically designed microgrids, coupled with IOT monitoring to enable effective scaling and service delivery for community supported projects and deploys their mobile energy solutions to rescue organizations to provide critical infrastructure. Surplus energy sales to local businesses further enhance sustainability and scalability.

https://www.atutu.org/

Enabling Concept Track Winner

SEED Center

The SEED Center is a global network that connects universities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to collaborate on sustainable energy, entrepreneurship, and policy. Their EBL project (Zambia) tested a model that connects solar-powered agriculture, waste processing, and entrepreneurship to create economic benefits within communities. using solar energy for maize processing and briquette production.

https://web.tum.de/en/seed/home/

Best Student Teams

Five Honorable Mentions