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Oct

Sidonge four years on…

It’s been Four years since our pilot project in Sidonge, Western Kenya first saw the light of day. During that time we’ve had our fair share of ups and downs, ranging from seeing people’s faces light up with smiles when they turn on their light at home for the first time, KUDURA operators that turned […]
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15

Sep

KUDURA for rural communities

Productive Energy Use, a catalyzer for cash-flow positive rural energy & water access

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 This blog was originally published in part on TriplePundit. This is no time to rest on our laurels Pico-solar lighting and solar-home-systems have proved themselves as revolutionary entry-level energy access technologies for low-income rural communities; See IDCOL’s success in Bangladesh, and recent multi €m investment in Berlin based SHS energy access company Mobisol, active in […]
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03

Sep

RVE.SOL’s patent-pending award and recent investment round aims to launch Minigrids into the mainstream

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The International Patent Office has awarded RVE.SOL a worldwide patent-pending status for its innovative, multi-utility service minigrid solution KUDURA – the first and only integrated electricity, biogas and potable water solution to include generation, distribution, monitoring, metering & mobile pre-payment. The industry is taking notice, especially impact investors, with RKW Holding fulfilling the startup’s entire […]
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15

Jun

Financing innovative sustainable energy solutions

In a previous blog post we discussed the concept of the “financing gap” – essentially the huge mismatch between available funds at international level for deployment of rural energy access projects and the actual projects & project developers like ourselves. From June 2 – 5 2015, team member Setu Pelz and myself attended and exhibited at […]
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09

Mar

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Goldilocks and the three energy access funding bears?

A chasm as defined by the British Dictionary is “a break in continuity; a gap”. In this blog we want to tackle the issue of sustainable development funding for energy access projects and the huge funding gap in the industry. A good analogy is the story of goldilocks and the three bears, do you know […]
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