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Mobile Pay-Go Solar Leader Aims to Reach 850,000 Zambians by 2020

Published on May 14, 2022 August 10, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Local and multinational companies continue to join forces to bring emissions-free, environmentally friendly electricity to rural communities in Africa that have never had reliable access... Read more →

Schneider Electric, WWF Install Solar-Storage Mini-Grids on Diminishing Islands in India’s Threatened Sundarbans

Published on May 14, 2022 August 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Stretching across the Bay of Bengal from on to offshore the coasts of northeast India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is the world’s largest remaining mangrove... Read more →

New Tesla Gigafactory Permits Reveal Plan to Build a Microgrid Lab

Published on May 14, 2022 July 27, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Tesla continues to invest heavily to realize its new distributed, clean energy vision, the centerpieces of which are its mammoth lithium-ion battery (LiB) and solar... Read more →

Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands

Published on May 14, 2022 July 26, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Ghana is turning to the construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power mini-grids in a bid to provide rural communities with modern, sustainable electricity... Read more →

Solar DAO Closed-End Fund Aims to Blow Open Doors to Global Utility-Scale Project Investment

Published on May 14, 2022 July 23, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Blockchain-based closed-end solar project investment fund Solar DAO is prepping for the launch of its initial coin offering (ICO). A digital autonomous organization (DAO) built... Read more →

Warburg Pincus Planning to Plow $75MM in Indian Rooftop/Residential Solar Developer

Published on May 14, 2022 July 22, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Whether it’s Manila, New Delhi, Nairobi or San Juan, Puerto Rico, expensive, unreliable power grid services raise the cost of living and doing business in... Read more →

Institute for Transformative Technologies Looks to Spur Rural Renewable Electrification

Published on May 14, 2022 July 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger

The Institute for Transformative Technologies’ (ITT) “Utility-in-a-Box” (UiB) is making its debut in India as three private-sector energy services companies (ESCOs) embark on testing and... Read more →

India’s Simpa Networks Launches Off-Grid, Pay-Go Home Solar-Satellite TV Service Bundle

Published on May 14, 2022 June 9, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Innovative home solar start-ups continue to crop up and expand in regions of the developing world, making increasingly substantial impacts when it comes to reducing... Read more →

Enel Green Power Commissions World’s First, and Highest, 24×7 Solar-Hydrogen-Lithium Energy Storage Microgrid

Published on June 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Characterized by diverse geographic regions and climate zones, cities, towns and villages in Chile often are separated by difficult terrain and long distances, Sitting atop... Read more →

Australia’s “Sunshine State” Issues Solar Rooftop Public Housing Tenders

Published on May 25, 2017 May 25, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Winter may be arriving, but solar energy and energy storage have been heating up even further in Australia since March when Tesla CEO Elon Musk... Read more →