Our C-Level has experience across all the key operational, development and commercial roles in the Cloud Computing and servitization models EFA’s local energy model is based on Infrastructure-, Platform-, and Software-as-a-Service.

The team is qualified in a host of different areas such as Environmental Technology, Energy Policy, Urban Sustainability, Chartered Accountancy, Resilience, Electronic Engineering, ITIL, and Software Development, amongst others.

Our plans for a Pilot Project involve all members of the EFA team.  While we’d love to share details of our amazing team online, current employment commitments mean we can’t.

We plan to make new hires when we have reached our funding target and will keep everyone updated when we do!

In late 2017/early 2018, while thinking of things like home improvements, a sales experience with a solar installer gave me an idea: to do what I thought he was offering.

Basically, they got to pitch because they said I’d save money on energy bills … but it turned out, with their model, that wouldn’t happen until some many years into the future, with a short term cost increase … NOT what I was looking for.

But, I knew that the return on investment numbers made economic sense.  If I could buy solar panels it looked like I’d have free energy for the rest of their “useful life”, after 5-7 years (most good solar panels last 20-25 years, so that’s 13-20 years of bill-free energy!).  But … the problem was, I didn’t have 6 or 7 grand!

So, what I thought was on offer is what EFA will do:  EFA will provide electricity from renewable technology in exchange for people paying down its cost over time.  Because the return can be made in 5-7 years the repayments could spread the cost and provide the energy for a low cost (up to 70% according to our recent calculations).

So we now just need to connect a microgrid of networked homes to share the proceeds of “behind the metre” renewable technologies (electricity) in monthly subscriptions.

With this idea rattling around my head and inspiration to do something for the environment (again), I studied for a prestigious MSc, and then pulled together a team of people to answer the biggest outstanding issue for climate action: Who’s going to pay?

EFA answers like this: who’s willing to pay less?!

EFA was founded in November 2020.  Since then, we’ve seen pandemics, a spiralling cost of living crisis, and war mentioned in the same breath as electricity …. not to mention the ominous threat of climatic disaster.

You might even think “what have you been doing, there’s a climate crisis … get this thing out there!” … and you’re not alone … but for all the talk of innovation, it seems to be extremely difficult to get noticed as an innovator (especially, it seems, when the idea is disruptive).

When Innovation leaders say they can’t help because their backers want to “stick with the status quo” and local government leaders withdraw support for your CO2-busting solution because they need a strategy for net zero … you can’t help thinking that the disconnect between reality, and humanity’s response to it, is endemic for decision makers everywhere.

To be the business EFA needs to be (and to break free from the status quo!) we need support from people who want us to make access to cheap green energy a reality for everyone.  Help EFA to show people everywhere, now, and in the future, that we did something about the problems our planet is facing.