The European Union (EU) GET.invest programme and the GIZ Financial Systems Development Cluster are joining forces to launch an initiative to encourage the financing of decentralised solar systems（Sinoware SHS） in local currency. The initiative will run until...

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The USAID-funded Power Africa Off-grid Project provides technical assistance and targeted grant funding to support the development of Africa’s off-grid solar home system (SHS,Sinoware), mini-grid, and productive use of energy (PUE) sectors. The Project accelerates...

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A Rwandan company, OAK Investments, has come up with a solution to make clean cooking affordable.The company is producing stoves and briquettes that are more affordable and environmentally friendly when compared to the use of charcoal and firewood. According to the owner of the company, Javan Munyarubuga, their goal is to reduce the number of households that depend on firewood and charcoal for cooking.The company that kicked off operations last year already got a seal of approval from regulators including the Rwanda Standards Board that conducts quality control.

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The Government of Rwanda through BRD in collaboration with the World Bank, and Swedish International cooperation agency SIDA ,have launched a subsidy window and Guarantee framework to provide credit facilities to SACCO’s, Banks and microfinance...

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Solving clean cooking provides the biggest triple-bottom-line opportunity of this decade. Such enormous numbers beg the question: Is this a solvable problem? And if the answer is yes, then the second question is: How? One possible solution is possibly to combine with Solar Lighting (or commonly Solar Lanterns/Solar Home System) into the same Channel. So that both could benefit and encourage the distribution. The main reason is that they are the same target customers. 

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Association of SENDEA Uganda, a local cooperative supporting entities in the renewable energy space has launched its seventh solar village located in Ruhita, Kafunjo parish, Ruhara sub county in Kabale district that will connect at least...

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With Lighting Global Initiator and relating specialists, the conference was held at Shenzhen by Video. The meeting is mainly relating to products quality and testing methods for the offgrid solar products. Up to now, 5 models meeting Lighting Global standars. They are mainly solar lanterns, including SunAceII and its family products.

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The Electricity Financing Initiative, one of the EU’s European Development Finance Institutions, has invested around €1.26 million in a convertible bond issued by Tanzanian solar products distributor Simusolar.The EU-funded body, styled as ‘EDFI Electrifi,’...

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The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) announces the results of a competition organised with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support growth in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee camps in Kenya. The winners of the competition include two clean energy providers.Six companies are winners of the IFC/AECF competition in two categories. The two solar energy providers came out on top in the Private Sector Window (PSW) category. Renewvia Energy Kenya, a subsidiary of the US-based Renewvia Energy. The company is very active in Kenya through its solar mini-grid electrification projects. Renewvia Energy Kenya wins the competition together with Sunken, a company based in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and providing solar energy for lighting and water pumping.

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Despite year-round high solar radiation, the deployment of solar off-grid solutions is well below potential in Cambodia. To the extent that only 16.4% of off-grid rural households use a solar solution (Solar Home System, Solar...

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