LocationsYouth-led clean tech company grows through GGJA
June 10, 2026
MAESC team members at the company’s operations in Monufia, Egypt
MAESC is a youth-led Egyptian clean technology company that designs and installs renewable energy systems, helping farmers and businesses to reduce fossil energy use. The company’s services include solar-powered irrigation and pumping systems for farms, solar energy systems, and biogas units which convert agricultural waste into energy. MAESC combines these solutions with digital monitoring tools, which helps businesses track and reduce overall energy use.
These services are especially important in remote and off-grid areas, where access to the electricity grid is limited. In these areas, MAESC’s solutions have helped farmers reduce reliance on diesel generators, supporting more reliable and sustainable energy access for local communities.
As the company grew, MAESC faced challenges common to many emerging businesses in the region such as cash flow management, gaining access to finance, and scaling operations. The business team also wanted to strengthen its long-term sustainability strategy and explore opportunities linked to carbon credits and impact-focused financing.
Joining the Green Growth and Jobs Accelerator Project (GGJAP) helped MAESC gain an external perspective on its operations and strengthen its business model. Through an estimated 10 hours of tailored mentorship, complemented by investment readiness support, and networking opportunities, MAESC refined its long-term growth plans and placed greater focus on developing and retaining women and youth within the company. Following participation in the Accelerator, the company hired six additional youth and women employees and introduced clearer performance indicators and staff development plans. According to MAESC, these changes contributed to lower staff turnover and helped ensure employees could grow and receive responsibilities aligned with their experience levels.
“One of the things GGJAP really helped us with, was focusing more on the role of women and youth in the company, and understanding that we need to build the workforce of the future,” says Mohamed Mohey Agllan, CEO of MAESC.
Today, women represent more than 60% of MAESC’s workforce, while more than 90% of employees are under the age of 35. Women also hold key leadership positions across the company, including the roles of People & Culture Manager and Engineering Manager. At governance level, women hold two of five board seats, while four of eight middle management positions are held by women across functions including Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, and Multimedia.
MAESC clean technology solutions helping reduce reliance on diesel and improve energy efficiency in rural Egypt
A key benefit for MAESC was participating in the Accelerator’s capacity-building activities, particularly the Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) component, which helps SMEs strengthen their capacity to measure, manage, and communicate their environmental and social impact. Through the IMM training and Impact Lab activities, MAESC identified key environmental and operational indicators to monitor the overall impact of its activities. These were then integrated into the company’s business planning, helping track and position its services around measurable sustainability outcomes.
As Mohamed Mohey Agllan, CEO of MAESC, explains:
“The IMM and the Impact Lab had a major influence on MAESC. They helped us turn our sustainability goals into clear activities that could be applied on the ground and create real impact.”
The Accelerator also supported the further development of MAESC’s “Monitoring Tree” software, a digital system helping farms and solar power stations track sustainability performance and support carbon credit applications.
“Developing our MAESC Monitoring Tree software through the GGJAP sessions and programmes was one of the most important outcomes of the Accelerator for us. This helped us become one of the first software providers in the Middle East supporting carbon credit applications for farms and solar power stations,” says Mohamed Mohey Agllan.
MAESC team members at the company’s operations in Monufia, Egypt.
GGJAP also helped MAESC strengthen its access to finance and scale its operations. During the programme, the company secured a USD 210,000 loan from the National Bank of Egypt, which helped the company scale its operations and meet the increasing demand for renewable energy solutions. Since joining the Accelerator, MAESC has expanded into Chad and Saudi Arabia, moving from a national company to international operations, while increasing its revenue by 11.43%. The MAESC solutions are currently operational across more than 400 farms and solar stations.
MAESC also participated in GGJAP’s Youth for Sustainability (Y4S) Matchmaking Track, where youth participants were paired with selected SMEs to work on practical technical assignments and sustainability-related solutions. As part of the collaboration, interns developed energy monitoring reports supporting MAESC’s IoT-based energy tracking systems, as well as a technical design and analysis report to support operational improvements.
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