Richard Stanford our Senior Engineer was invited to present at the Strathmore Energy Research Centre to a group of fourteen, that were undergoing training to obtain their T3 Grid-Tie Solar License. He discussed CrossBoundary Energys activities in Africas Commercial & Industrial solar sector, and also took them through some of the key technical focus areas of early stage project development
Great article by Liesel Pritzker Simmons, co-Founder and Principal at Blue Haven Initiative in The Economist! Thanks to Blue Haven Initiative for featuring us and for their continued support of CrossBoundary.
At EAVCA's 4th Annual Conference, Matt Tilleard, our co-Managing Partner, addressed the role of development and philanthropic funds in unlocking commercial capital for renewable investment and the varying risk/return profiles of different renewable generation sources; during the Renewable Energy Panel. The panel moderated by Hamilton Harrison & Mathews, also featured panelists from Astonfield Renewables, Omidyar Network and SunFunder…
Today, Jake Cusack, our co-Managing Partner, gave a talk at the Center for Global Development Power Lunch in Washington D.C., on our work in distributed generation in Africa and how were expanding in rural electrification. His host was Todd Moss, Senior Fellow, at the Center for Global Development.
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Femi Fadugba, Head of CrossBoundary Energy West Africa, presented the business case for commercial and industrial solar in Abuja, Nigeria during The Solar Future in Nigeria, organised by Solar Plaza. He said that customers in Nigeria who place a premium on power reliability can get significant and immediate savings through a financed solar + storage solution.
Tom Flahive, Partner, participated on the Energy Panel at the Fifteenth Annual African Economic Forum at Columbia University. The theme of the Forum was African Innovation: Leveraging the present to shape the future.