inspiratia features Humphrey Wireko discussing how the CrossBoundary Energy Access and PowerGen Renewable Energy transaction is proving a project financing model to establish mini-grids as infrastructure assets.

New mini-grid fund CrossBoundary Energy Access has closed its first transaction, with PowerGen Renewable Energy in Tanzania. The company is using a new project finance approach to mini-grids which it hopes will help increase the availability of finance in the sector, writes Dan Marks

Mini-grids may finally be ready to change the world. But the small, self-sufficient electricity grids that connect communities who have not been reached by the main grid are not a new technology …

CrossBoundary Energy Access (CBEA), Africa’s first project financing facility for mini-grids, is announcing its first transaction today to finance 60 mini-grids in Tanzania in partnership with PowerGen Renewable Energy, one of the sector’s leading mini-grid developers and operators …

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Despite significant progress in access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa, there’s still a big gap in the region with over 600 million people lacking access to electricity and the biggest part of the blame is laid on lack of financing. CNBC Africa is joined by Gabriel Davies, Head of Energy Access at CrossBoundary Energy Access a recently launched financing facility...