Category: Member article
Early stage C&I solar company with a focus on West Africa closes investment with ARE Member EAV
Nairobi, 7 July 2020 – SolarX, a Mali-based solar company, is pleased to announce the close of its Series A round led by ARE Member Energy Access Ventures (EAV), an early-stage fund investing in and supporting decentralised energy companies across sub-Saharan […]
ARE Member Phaesun takes home two awards for water desalination project in Somaliland
Memmingen, 14 July 2020 – The Memmingen-based solar company and ARE Member Phaesun received two international awards on 30 June 2020: Phaesun was honoured with the Energy Globe Award and the SmarterE Award for the installation of a solar-powered water desalination system in […]
ARE Member SustainSolar delivers solar mini-grid on Idjwi Island, DRC
6 July 2020 – Despite the challenges of covid-19 lockdown, ARE Member SustainSolar, an Africa-focused solar photovoltaic (PV) off-grid system integrator and provider of turn-key solutions for rural electrification, recently started working on a containerised off-grid solar-battery power systems to […]
ARE Member Sunkofa & PowerGen awarded 40 Mini-Grids on the Benin Mini-Grid Call for Proposals
29 Jun 2020 – PowerGen and ARE Member Sunkofa Energy signed on 22 March 2020 with MCA Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), funded by Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the co-financing agreement to put in place the project of electrification of 40 villages […]
ARE Member EDP sponsors 8 clean energy access projects in Africa with €500,000
Lisbon, 15 June 2020 – The projects will be implemented in Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Malawi, and are expected to benefit more than one million people. The overall amount to be invested through the A2E Fund stands at €500,000. […]
ARE Member Gaia Impact Fund announces a milestone equity investment in Nuru, a mini-grid developer and operator in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Goma, 16 June 2020 – “Nuru is thrilled to be partnering with Gaia Impact Fund to bring millions of people renewable energy in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, says Jonathan Shaw, CEO of Nuru. Nuru, which recently commissioned a 1.3 […]
ARE Member Renewvia commissions mini-grids in 3 localities in Kenya
11 June 2020 – The Kenyan subsidiary of solar off-grid provider and ARE Member Renewvia Energy has just commissioned three solar mini grids for three communities in Turkana and Marsabit counties in Kenya. This electrification project was implemented in partnership […]
ARE Member Renewvia lights up two Nigerian communities with mini-grids
Bayelsa State, Nigeria – On June 2, 2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria, through its Implementing Agency – Rural Electrification Agency (REA), commissioned two solar hybrid mini grids in the villages of Akipelai and Oloibiri, Bayelsa State with a total capacity […]
ARE Member INENSUS launches free open source software solution to manage decentralised utilities
18 May 2020, Goslar, Germany – ARE Member INENSUS launches the Open Source version of “MicroPowerManager”, an all-in-one management software for Decentralised Electric Utilities. With the accelerating deployment of mini-grids and electricity distribution concessions in Africa and Asia, more and […]
ARE Members AFD & ADEME support 10 innovative actors to promote access to sustainable energy in Africa
27 April 2020 – ARE Member ADEME and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) today announced the results of the call for projects “Innovative solutions for off-grid sustainable energy access” (SolInAE). Launched in September 2019, with companies and civil society organisations […]