The Bangladesh Army will install 80,000 solar home systems （Sinoware SHS）and 5,000 community arrays in the hilly districts of Chittagong after the government doubled the scale of an installation drive in the area.The cabinet...

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The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) financing was approved at its 342nd Board of Directors meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is a loan of 17.38 million euros for the electrification of rural areas of Togo...

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The Kenyan startups Drop Access and Inno-Neat have won the Startup|Energy Award at the end of the Energy Camp East Africa on 29. September 2021. A total of five start-ups from the decentralised energy...

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A report released a few years ago stated that only 13% of rural households had access to any kind of electricity. Rural households account for 67% of the population and that would mean 100%...

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All On is again supporting access to electricity in Nigeria. The impact investment company set up by the Shell Foundation and supported by several financial partners is investing $2 million in Infibranches Technologies. The...

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TIn concrete terms, new customers of the public company will initially pay only 3,000 CFA francs (4.55 euros), compared to 90,000 to 218,000 CFA francs (137.20 euros to 332.33 euros) at present,...

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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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