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Press Release: Greenlight Planet, Solar Pay-as-You-Go Market Leader, Secures $90 Million Investment
New Funding to Expand the Company’s Pay-As-You-Go Solar Financing Business, Backed by Leading Investors CDC Group, FMO, Norfund, and ARCH Emerging Markets Partner
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Charting a Path for a Resilient Recovery in Sub Saharan Africa
Countries need to ensure that the vast global fiscal support deployed to fight the pandemic also works to build a smarter, greener and more equitable future.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Big Oil Has Fallen’: Environmentalists Celebrate Exxon Mobil Being Booted from Dow Jones
Exxon Mobil’s demotion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average after nearly a century is being celebrated by environmentalists as a harbinger of the fossil fuel industry’s demise.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Renewable Energy in Developing Countries Emerges as Growth Area
With oil and gas prices down 30% for the year and fossil fuels becoming less attractive due to sustainability issues, investors are looking elsewhere in the energy sector.
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- Energy
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BP Aims to Build 50GW of Renewables by 2030, Cut Fossil Fuel Output by 40%
The oil supermajor lays out further details on its path toward net-zero, keeping ahead of its fossil fuel rivals in its energy transition ambitions.
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- Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy, SDGs
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Analysis: Clean-energy optimism soars as world struggles with the pandemic’s fallout
Investors see big business opportunities building renewable energy projects in emerging markets. This solar farm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua started operating in 2018.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Analysis: Emerging Markets and Innovation: Twin Pillars of the Solar Tracker Market
Global solar tracker shipments reached new record levels in 2019, exceeding 31 GW, up 55% year on year. Exceptional demand in the United States – as well as multiple gigawatt markets in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Spain and Australia – helped propel the market to new heights, writes Cormac Gilligan, associate director at IHS Markit.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy, SDGs
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Crowdfunding For Clean Energy — Raise Green Launches New Marketplace
Founded by Peter Krajsa and Matthew Brown, NEIF currently manages more than $800 million worth of “innovative energy financing programs.”
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