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Vortex Energy Achieves $200 Million First Close For Flagship Fund ‘Vortex Energy IV,’ Targets Investments in Global Energy Transition
Vortex Energy is launching Vortex Energy IV, a new fund to tap into the burgeoning global interest in Energy Transition
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- Global
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Daystar Power Receives $20 Million in Funding to Boost Operations in West Africa
Nigeria-based, Daystar Power, has received an investment from the International Finance Corporation(IFC), a subsidiary of the World Bank Group.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Statkraft to Support Solar in Africa to Address Energy Poverty
Statkraft is partnering with SolarAid to address energy poverty through solar power in sub-Saharan Africa over the next three years.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- energy access
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Interview: HomeBiogas – The Circular Economy Meets Clean Cooking
Oshik Efrati, CEO of HomeBiogas, and Boaz Schweiger, Executive Chairman of HomeBiogas and Operating Partner at Closed Loop Partners, spoke with Colm Fay, CCA’s Senior Director for Market Strengthening, about the origins of HomeBiogas and what the IPO means for the company and its future.
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- Energy
- Region
- Global
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Delivering Babies in the Dark: How Solar Systems Can Enhance Health Service Delivery in Rural Medical Facilities
The healthcare systems of vulnerable communities across the globe are being hindered by a lack of electricity, but solar technology can offer solutions, say Tokozile N. Ngwenya and John Keane at SolarAid and Hannah Blair and Siena Hacker at CLASP. They explain how the Efficiency for Access Coalition has partnered with SolarAid to equip rural health facilities in Malawi and Zambia with solar systems, and explore what needs to happen to scale these approaches.
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- Energy, Health Care
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Democratic Republic of Congo Announces $100 Million Solar-Hybrid Power Project
A consortium led by Gridworks and including Eranove and AEE Power, has signed three concession agreements with the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to develop, build and operate three large scale, solar-hybrid, off grid utilities.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: The Build Fund Makes Inaugural Investment in East African off-Grid Solar Energy Solutions Distributor
The BUILD Fund (BUILD), an impact fund created in partnership between Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), has made its inaugural investment, providing a USD500,000 working capital facility for Mwezi, a Kenyan distributor of solar products.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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West Africa: $465 Million Approved for Regional Electricity Access
The World Bank Group has approved a regional electricity access project in West Africa for a total amount of $465 million.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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