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Mobile Power Ltd

Mobile Power - Energy and transport in Africa

Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.

CRN
08616455
Founded
2013
Age
12

Overview

Legal name
MOBILE POWER LTD
Region
Unknown
Registered address
5 NEWHALL BUSINESS PARK
58 NEWHALL ROAD
SHEFFIELD
ENGLAND
S9 2QD
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024

FULLACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
-£854,748
Employees
27

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
16 Oct
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

02 Oct
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

31 Oct
2024

Accounts Amended With Accounts Type Group

Accounts Analysed

AAMD | Transaction MzQ0MTU5NTI2NWFkaXF6a2N4 | Paper/PDF filed

Published 02 Nov 2024 07:22

02 Oct
2024

Confirmation Statement With Updates

Confirmation-statement

CS01 | Transaction MzQzODE0NTQ1N2FkaXF6a2N4

Published 02 Oct 2024 01:32

19 Jul
2013

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

14 awards
First funded
2014
Funded years
2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
0 years

Projects

2025 Small Business Research Initiative Lead participant

Demonstrating the Replacement of Fossil-Fuel Generators in Nigeria

1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£992,737
Total cost £992,737

In Nigeria, the electricity grid is not able to keep up with a growing population, as a result 40% of households own a fossil-fuel generator spending $14 billion annually on fossil-fuel. There are believed to be 22 million small generators in Nigeria despite the government ban to stop them being imported in 2015(A2EI). Until recently, the Nigerian governm...

2024 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

MOPO+: A Novel Integrated Renewable Technology Solution to replace Fossil-Fuel Generators in Nigeria

1 Jun 2024 to 28 Feb 2025

Awarded
£72,822
Total cost £104,032

In Nigeria, the electricity grid is not able to keep up with a growing population, as a result 40% of households own a fossil-fuel generator. There are believed to be 22 million small generators in Nigeria providing 8 times the amount of electricity as the Nigerian grid (A2EI/Dalberg 2019). This is despite the government ban to stop small generators being...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Integrating Sustainable Technologies to create a ‘Distributed Renewable Energy System’ for Clean Cooking, Milling and Cooling in Nigeria and DRC.

1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2027

Awarded
£1,543,438
Total cost £3,429,862

VISION: Ensuring the clean energy revolution reaches the poorest and most marginalised in Nigeria and DRC through integrating innovative clean energy technologies within Mobile Power's energy ecosystem to replace fossil-fuel generators and wood-biomass for cooking, creating a 'Distributed Renewable Energy System' (DRES) OBJECTIVES: This experimental devel...

2023 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Electrifying Rural Development in Africa: displacing low-productivity manual labour activities and fossil-fuel generators in off-grid communities via a novel modular inverter design.

1 Mar 2023 to 29 Feb 2024

Awarded
£141,037
Total cost £201,482

Approximately 1 billion people in Africa do not have reliable access to the electricity grid. The only option to access electricity is through fossil-fuel generators. However, the majority of women farmers are not able to afford generators and so are trapped in being reliant on manual labour, which limits productivity and therefore income. Mobile Power su...

2022 Innovation Loans Lead participant

Demonstrating the commercial viability of Mobile Power's multi-purpose battery for e-mobility and generator replacement in West Africa

28 Sep 2022 to 28 Sep 2029

Awarded
£0
Total cost £0

The African transport sector is the fastest growing in the world. Globally the number of vehicles will double by 2050 and the majority of this growth will be in Africa. The lack of adequate roads overwhelmed by growing traffic congestion has seen a boom in motorcycles. In fact, over 50% of vehicles sold in West Africa are motorcycles, compared to 3% in th...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Mobile Power’s combined ‘battery-as-a-service’ and ‘vehicle-as-a-service’ business model pilot in rural Nigeria

1 Sep 2022 to 31 Aug 2025

Awarded
£1,765,464
Total cost £3,923,252

Transport in Nigeria is reliant on fuel that is expensive, often poor quality & reliant on government subsidy. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producing country but subsidises fuel resulting in a cost to the state. Technical advances in electric vehicles in China and India has seen an explosion in cheap electric motorbikes and electric agricultural tricyc...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Resilience Fund supporting Mobile Power's Project "Innovation in Battery Storage for multiple uses in Sierra Leone"

1 Dec 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£99,595
Total cost £99,595

Mobile Power has designed and tested an energy distribution ecosystem that supplies affordable, clean power to poor households and enterprises in off-grid communities in Sierra Leone using a pay-as-you-go smart battery rental system. The core innovation is in the cost-effective distribution of electricity off-grid. Mobile Power's batteries are charged at ...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

EC7- Innovation in Battery Storage for multiple uses in Sierra Leone - COVID-19 Continuity Project

1 Jun 2020 to 30 Sep 2021

Awarded
£110,472
Total cost £110,472

no public description

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Innovation in Battery Storage for multiple uses in Sierra Leone

1 Apr 2020 to 30 Jun 2022

Awarded
£297,345
Total cost £424,779

Awaiting Public Project Summary

2020 Feasibility Studies

Energy Access Africa (EAA)

1 Apr 2020 to 31 Aug 2021

Awarded
£49,377
Total cost £70,539

Awaiting Public Project Summary

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Mobile Power Ltd

6 Mar 2020 to 6 Mar 2022

Awarded
£989,524
Total cost £989,524
2020 Knowledge Transfer Network Lead participant

Pink Power Kehkeh: testing inclusive business models to provide decent jobs and deliver safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport at scale in Sierra Leone

1 Mar 2020 to 31 Aug 2020

Awarded
£47,929
Total cost £68,471

"The Pink Power kehkeh initiative aims to establish a women-run transport service in Sierra Leone, providing cleaner and safer affordable transport, especially for women and other vulnerable passengers, contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities. The initiative will provide decent jobs for women trying to escape from the abusive s...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Innovation Loans Knowledge Transfer Network Small Business Research Initiative Vouchers