Featured in Technology highlights 2018 – 05-2018

More than just money

Solar finance: Supporting the growth of solar PV and other renewable energies in developing nations in Africa and Asia obviously requires vast sums of capital. But beyond hard cash lies an ecosystem of support, expertise, and advisory bodies attuned to the acute needs of such regions, as Lucia Fuselli of the European Investment Bank (EIB) explains.

For decades, deployment of renewables – particularly solar – in developing countries has been a sort of El Dorado: many talk about it, but few actually manage to get there. A web search on “renewable energy potential emerging markets” gets you hits from articles as old as 1994 and yet, as recently as 2011, the …

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