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d.light Reaches 500,000th Pay-As-You-Go Customer, Launches Access Initiative
Company announces strategic focus to scale solar through financing globally
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Next Big Thing You Missed: Bigger, Cheaper Fuel Cells Will Eliminate Power Outages
General Electric has a bright idea for keeping the lights on even when the electrical grid short-circuits. The 122-year-old company wants to bring clean, reliable, affordable energy to the masses with hyper-efficient fuel cells , and in a rare move, is launching a startup to do it.
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- Energy, Environment
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NexThought Monday – Clean Energy Mini-grids for Rural Customers are Here to Stay: How to ensure power flows for long-term – Going Off Grid (pt 6)
In recent weeks we’ve seen big global development players drum up much-needed attention for renewable energy in Southeast Asia. Despite the headlines and events, for those who look at the statistics, it has never been a secret that Southeast Asia holds massive potential for renewable energy growth, particularly in the form of decentralized solutions.
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- Energy
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Weekly Roundup 7-11-14: ‘Going Off Grid’ is going mainstream
If the U.S. Congress and the president can agree on that investment in off-grid energy technology across the developing world that must mean it has broad appeal. Indeed, public/private investing in off-grid energy has caught on in a major way. This week we hosted a five-part series, Going Off Grid, which explored new technologies, new business models, and new forms of investing and participation in the developing market of energy infrastructure.
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- Energy
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- off-grid energy, solar
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Selling Entrepreneurship, Not Solar Lamps: Going Off Grid Series (Part 5)
In the same way that mobile phones took the lead over capital-intensive land lines to revolutionize communication in the developing world, Meaghan Cassidy at at KARIBU Solar Power believes that pay-as-you-go will revolutionize energy.
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- Energy
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- off-grid energy, solar
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In Malawi, Turning the Wheel for Affordable Micro-Hydropower: Going Off Grid Series (Part 4)
MEGA is Malawi’s first independent power producing company, a mini-grid system that uses hydropower to bring power to remote areas. MEGA is based on 10 planned micro-hydro schemes on the fast-moving rivers of Mount Mulanje. But the main thing that sets it apart is its enterprise model. Rather than public or community ownership, MEGA is run as an enterprise that employs a clustered approach to mini-grid management.
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- Energy
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- off-grid energy
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Why U.S. Companies Are Investing in Lighting Africa – the View from OPIC: Going Off Grid Series (Pt 3)
Recent history shows that powering Africa is not only possible, it has become a major business opportunity for U.S. companies, that are achieving success through innovative projects in a number of African nations.
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- Energy
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Positive (and Negative) Charges – Which Business Models Are Surging: Going Off Grid Series (pt 2)
What’s the best business model for distributed energy solutions? Jack Bird with Santa Clara State University says the answer is entirely dependent on the technology, the target market and the resources of the enterprise. No one model is the silver bullet for providing the 1.3 billion people suffering from energy poverty with clean, reliable and affordable energy. There are, however, a few takeaways from the exhaustive Energy Map.
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- Education, Energy, Health Care