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Record Sales Highlight Off-Grid Solar’s Critical Role in Electrification
The East Africa region and Nigeria experienced the highest sales, with subsidies and results-based financing (RBF) programmes helping expand affordability and accelerate market expansion, pushing sales of products purchased through pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) up by almost 50%.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financing the Future: How Off-Balance-Sheet Special Purpose Vehicles Could Fund Africa’s Cleantech Transition
Across Africa, founders are tackling some of the world’s most difficult development challenges with cleantech solutions that require significant capital expenditure. But according to Julia Lawson-Johns, and Amar Inamdar at KawiSafi Ventures, beneath this wave of innovation lies a capital architecture that is still too shallow to enable the scale these firms now require. They argue that off-balance-sheet financing via special-purpose vehicles could provide cleantech enterprises with an alternative means of securing upfront liquidity to finance growth, and explore how these vehicles could power Africa’s cleantech transition.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Investing, Transportation
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WFP and Government of Nepal Launch Innovation Accelerator for Climate and Food Security
The accelerator supports local start-ups to pilot and scale solutions across the food system, including solar-powered irrigation and clean energy solutions, digital advisory platforms for farmers, satellite-based insurance and climate data tools and market and value chain innovations for smallholders.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Analysis: Beyond the Horizon: What Off-Grid Solar and Clean Cooking Can Reveal About the Road Ahead for Clean Cooling
Clean cooling is at an inflection point. The need is clear, proof-of-concept technologies exist, and the market is forming. The decisions made now will shape the sector for a generation. The experience of off-grid solar and clean cooking tells us what might lie over the horizon.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: India’s Cooking Fuel Crisis Needs a Multi-Fuel Clean Energy Strategy
A multi-fuel strategy built around electrification, biogas and solar can offer energy security, affordability and fiscal relief to India.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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bPOWERd Expands into Nigeria with Solar Battery Rental Hubs
Originally launched in South Africa in 2025, bPOWERd said it facilitated 125,000 rentals within its first 12 months of operations.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- MSMEs, renewable energy, solar, startups
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Press Release: British International Investment Unveils $300 Million Platform to Accelerate Indian Renewable Power Generation
The new platform to be called North Star, is the first investment made through British Climate Partners, a £1.1 billion climate finance initiative launched by BII last month as part of its new five-year strategy.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Powering Peace: Can Renewable Energy Help End Africa’s Conflicts?
Conflict is now at its highest level since World War II, driven by the breakdown of the international rules-based system, climate degradation, inequality, and demographic pressure—forces that are particularly acute across sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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