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Yingli Europe and SolarAid Launch the World’s Most Affordable Solar Light
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Solar" or "Yingli"), one of the world's leading solar panel manufacturers, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Europe GmbH (Yingli Europe) has partnered with SolarAid, a leading international charity that combats poverty and climate change, to launch the world's most affordable quality solar light, the SM100.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Looking To Leapfrog the Power Grid, d.light Raises $22 Million for Solar in Emerging Markets
The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off-grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Australian Social Enterprise Lights Up India’s Slums
Pollinate Energy was founded by six young Australians in 2012, following a blackout in India that left more than 600 million people without power.
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- Energy, Technology
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- South Asia
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What We’re Learning Every Step of the Energy Ladder
We spent the last year at Acumen collecting impact data on companies across our portfolio using our Lean Data approach, which harnesses the power of technology to give voice to low-income customers and allows us to provide quality customer feedback to drive business decisions for our investees. From these surveys, our entrepreneurs will get real insight into their customers: who they are, how and where they utilize energy, how much energy they use, and what they spend on a weekly or monthly basis, among other valuable feedback.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- renewable energy, solar
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Creating ‘Solavores’ By Thinking Inside the Box
Solavore, launched last year, sells solar ovens in the developed world and uses the profits to subsidize clean-cooking technology for the 2.7 billion people in the developing world for whom wood fire is the only cooking option, with the inevitable result: lung damage.
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- Energy, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- climate health, solar
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Rockefeller backs Africa push by Mainstream
The family foundation of the wealthy Rockefeller dynasty has emerged as a backer of an energy project in Africa that's being spearheaded by Eddie O'Connor's Mainstream Renewable Power firm.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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6 necessary steps to make the SDGs a reality
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for concerted efforts to galvanize private sector investment in numerous SDG-linked sectors: infrastructure development, health and education, agriculture and food security, and a host of other areas of social, environmental and economic challenges.
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- Energy, Environment
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100 Social Innovators and 10 Lessons for Career, Life
In interviewing the social innovators profiled in Solving Problems that Matter, I noticed a number of recurring themes of championing rigorous, ethical, evidence-based approaches; learning how to fail and bounce back; and being willing to question the dominant paradigm. Innovators stressed the need to deeply understand the challenges and the larger system by spending considerable time in the field talking with all the stakeholders. They emphasized the need to seek and analyze the lessons learned from previous efforts, quantify results and build relationships across sectors.
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