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CrossBoundary Energy Access (CBEA) has launched an open-source approach to increase the investment in infrastructure capital for mini-grids across Africa.

600 million people across Africa lack access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy. Mini-grids are a disruptive new approach that could accelerate energy access. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that mini-grids will be the least cost method to connect at least 264 million people by 2030. But to unlock their potential, we need new ways of financing mini-grids. CrossBoundary Energy...

CrossBoundary Energy Access has partnered with Odyssey Energy Solutions to implement an asset management platform for its mini-grid investments. The platform allows CBEA to manage all portfolio and asset operator activity.…

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