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Wind + Solar = 53% of New US Electricity
Solar and wind made up more than half of all new US electricity capacity in 2014. Adding other renewable sources (such as hydro, geothermal, waste heat, and biomass), nearly 56 percent of new energy...
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ImpactAlpha’s #DealFlow 3.4.2016: Kiva Aims to Finance One Million Women...
Small is beautiful (but not enough). The crowdfunding platform Kiva teamed up with development agencies to back women micro-entrepreneurs; Access Power is seeking to identify early-stage African energy...
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#Dealflow 8.3.16: Global Partnerships Absorbs Eleos, Bain Launches Fund,...
Few investors back early-stage startups targeting poor customers in emerging markets. Fewer still make money on such investments. To address this “pioneer gap,” Global Partnerships and Eleos Foundation...
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Disrupt Carbon: Shift to Electric Vehicles and Solar Power Speeds the End of...
Students of disruptive innovation over the last several decades will recognize the pattern. Solar panels and electric cars, once derided as fringe products for niche markets, are marching to dominance....
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Armenia to open bids for its first solar power plant
Armenia is building out its renewable energy capacity. Construction on the South Caucasus country's first ever solar plant is expected to begin in 2017 and be completed by 2020. The 40 to 50-megawatt...
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Inspired Evolution raises $90 million for South African solar and wind projects
Inspired Evolution has raised $90 million for South African solar and wind projects. The funds, from unnamed development finance institutions, will boost South Africa’s supply of electricity and help...
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Bridges Ventures gets cheaper capital for energy-efficient real estate
It’s getting a little easier being green. Lloyds Bank’s Green Lending Initiative offers real estate owners lower-cost capital to make energy-efficiency upgrades. Bridges Ventures secured the first such...
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African renewable-energy supply could surpass demand by 2030
Just 37% of people in Africa had access to electricity in 2014, with the vast majority living in rural areas. Demand is set to skyrocket, projected to triple 2010 consumptions levels by 2030 (an amount...
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Oikocredit raises $2.1 million to finance SDG solutions
Oikocredit has raised $2.1 million to finance more SDG solutions. Debt and equity investments by Oikocredit, a Netherlands-based cooperative, help to finance microfinance institutions and small...
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Oil-rich Nigeria moves to boost renewables to 30 percent by 2030
From Norway to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, big oil producers are becoming big backers of renewable-energy. Now, Nigeria has signed two agreements with solar developers to guarantee the...
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Countries have set renewable energy targets; now they must make them law
Not all renewable energy targets are created equally. More than 160 countries have set renewable energy targets, up from only 43 in 2005. How those targets are structured says a lot about countries’...
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Apple says it will make all products from renewable or recycled resources
Three years ago, Apple said it planned to make its facilities 100 percent run on renewable energy. It’s 96 percent of the way there, Lisa Jackson, Apple's VP of environmental and social initiatives...
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Renewable energy investments face human rights scrutiny
How solar, wind and other renewable energy projects are implemented matters to local communities – and to investors, says a new report from Transform Finance, the Business & Human Rights Resource...
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Wind + Solar = 53% of New US Electricity
Solar and wind made up more than half of all new US electricity capacity in 2014. Adding other renewable sources (such as hydro, geothermal, waste heat, and biomass), nearly 56 percent of new energy...
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ImpactAlpha’s #DealFlow 3.4.2016: Kiva Aims to Finance One Million Women...
Small is beautiful (but not enough). The crowdfunding platform Kiva teamed up with development agencies to back women micro-entrepreneurs; Access Power is seeking to identify early-stage African energy...
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#Dealflow 8.3.16: Global Partnerships Absorbs Eleos, Bain Launches Fund,...
Few investors back early-stage startups targeting poor customers in emerging markets. Fewer still make money on such investments. To address this “pioneer gap,” Global Partnerships and Eleos Foundation...
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