Global Cycle Solutions is now a part of the
Greenlight Planet Family!

Our Journey So Far

1. 2018 Onwards

2. 2017

   GCS Tanzania Limited officially becomes a Greenlight Planet Company!

   GCS opens 26 Sun King shops across the country.

   

   

3. 2016

   GCS Founder Jodie Wu is awarded Clean Energy
   Education & Empowerment (C3E) Award in International Leadership

   GCS brings the first Sun King EasyBuy Products to Tanzania.

   

   

4. 2015

   GCS is selected for the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP)
   Round 10 grantee

   

   

5. 2014

   GCS is selected to participate in the first round of
   Energising Development's Results-Based Financing (RBF)
   Fund for pico-solar in the Lake Zone of Tanzania.

   

   

6. 2013

   GCS wins the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration Grant to
   develop Labour-Saving Innovations for Women Smallholder farmers.

   

   

7. 2012

   GCS Founder Jodie Wu is selected as 2012's Forbes' 30 under 30 in Science.

   GCS orders their first container of Sun Kings.

   Jodie visits Greenlight Planet's HQ in Mumbai, India.

   

8. 2011

   GCS sells their first Sun Kings in the Tanzania market.

   GCS Founder Jodie Wu is selected as a 2011 TED Global Fellow.

   

9. 2010

   GCS Founder Jodie Wu receives her first Sun King and takes it back to Tanzania.

   GCS Founder Jodie Wu is selected as a 2010 Echoing Green Fellow
   and is also voted Bloomberg BusinessWeek's America's
   Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.

   GCS Tanzania Limited is registered as a local subsidiary in Tanzania.

   

   

10. 2009

    GCS wins second place at the Nane Nane Agricultural Exhibition Fair.

    GCS incorporates as Global Cycle Solutions, Inc. in Massachusetts and first
    products are locally manufactured in Arusha.

    GCS wins the 100K Business Plan Development Track Award and Audience
    Choice Award.

    

11. 2008

    GCS is an Executive Summary Contest Finalist for MIT's
    100K Business Plan Competition.

    First prototype is deployed in Tanzania, validating business potential.

    Jodie starts developing GCS' first product as part of MIT's D-Lab Design Class.

    Jodie goes to Tanzania for the first time with a pedal-powered maize sheller.