10Power, a company building renewable ecosystems in markets that lack access to reliable electrical grids, is proud to announce it has achieved certification as a B Corporation™
Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good. They meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability and aspire to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. There are more than 2,500 Certified B Corporations in over 130 industries and 60 countries with 1 unifying goal – to redefine success in business.
“Since starting the company it has always been my goal for 10Power to become a certified B Corp,” says founder and CEO, Sandra Kwak. “The values of this community are synonymous with 10Power’s values of creating a regenerative path for international development.”
To become a Certified B Corp™, B Lab, the nonprofit that certifies B Corps™ and supports companies using business as a force for good, conducted a rigorous evaluation of 10Power and determined the company met the comprehensive performance standards to qualify for certification. In this process 10Power answered more than 250 questions about its business practices and had those answers verified by B Lab. 10Power scored an overall 107.9 points, compared to the minimum standard needed for certification of 80 points, and the median score for all Certified B Corps™ of 97.