About Lytefire

Lytefire is the human scale solar tech created to support people locally. We are an impact company founded 2012 in Tampere, Finland.

What makes us unique? We go above solar cooking with higher heat temperature and more capacity. Enough to allow the creation of solar activities everywhere the sun shines.

By installing one of our models, building it yourself or purchasing it, the impact is real and immediate and that’s what motivate us to keep going.

At the start, we were a group of six adventurer friends. To slow climate change and deforestation, it was clear to us that more an more people will need clean energy for all kinds of uses. So we have made it easy for productive use, like to power bakeries, kitchens, seeds roasteries, as an income generating activity. We are pragmatic about change, and our mission has always been to bring Lytefire to the places and communities where it has the biggest impact.

Lytefire is a simple, robust, clean and durable solar design. Lytefire is also regenerative: because being carbon neutral or net-zero is not enough anymore. We have to prevent forests and carbon stores from being cut down and burned, we have to create the basis of a trully sustainable economy. We have to find a way people make money and regrow nature. Lytefire is here to support this change.

Sticking to a simple and powerful solar solution that has no high-tech, is humanitarian, is maintainable, has been challenging in a world obsessed by profit-maximization, speed, high-tech and growth. But we stand by our values from the start and to co-create this adventure, we had to solve all kind of problems Everything from training rural entrepreneurs in Uganda to supporting DIYers at-distance online. In that sense, we see Lytefire as a social and environmental innovation lab that finds solutions to what stands in the way of people accessing free solar energy. But unlike labs, we test in the field, figure out what works for people and are always interested in client and user feedback to improve our work.

We hope to install more and more units with you in order to contribute to a more peaceful, stable, and regenerative world.

Our Values & Model

We are an impact company with strong values: Sustainability, Empowerment, Courage and Authenticity. We are working hard to promote and facilitate the emerging of a regenerative economy. As an impact company we are still an outlier, doing different what must be changed to enable a sustinable future (read more about our model).

Our Team

Lytefire’s executive team is run by Eva Wissenz and Urs Riggenbach. They are both part of the original group of founders and their work is governed by the board. Lytefire’s board meet several time a year to vote on key decisions. All the members are elected yearly by our impact oriented shareholders.