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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 →

World Bank Spurs Kenya Off-Grid Solar Expansion with $150MM IDA Credit

Published on May 14, 2022 July 31, 2017 by Andrew Burger

The World Bank recently added substantial impetus to the wave of off-grid solar energy projects sweeping across Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s preeminent multilateral development bank... 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 →

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 →

Competition Heats Up in Kenya’s Off-Grid, Mobile Pay-Go Solar Market

Published on March 22, 2017 March 21, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Home to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Kenya is a hive of activity and a magnet for sustainable development-minded off-grid solar and energy storage... Read more →

Episcopalian, Methodist Churches Plow $60MM into Developing World Off-Grid Solar

Published on March 8, 2017 March 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger

The investment arms of two prominent Protestant Christian church organizations are “walking the talk” by putting large sums of capital to work to expand clean,... Read more →

Ugandan Off-Grid Solar, Low-Cost Internet Access Poised for a Growth Spurt

Published on February 14, 2017 February 13, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Uganda has joined the ranks of Sub-Saharan national governments launching ambitious off-grid solar power campaigns. In addition to the anticipated, broad-based benefits to society and... Read more →

ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive

Published on January 12, 2017 November 20, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Both India and multinational power engineering market leader ABB are on something of distributed clean energy microgrid construction binges. Along with a fledgling group of... Read more →

Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015

Published on October 27, 2016 October 22, 2016 by Andrew Burger

A little bit can go a long way, and that's proving to be the case regarding off-grid PV solar energy and solar products. Probably unfamiliar... Read more →