James Shoetan, our East Africa Business Development Manager, was on a panel at the AIX Nairobi Power & Renewables Executive Briefing with Elijah Isabu, Sunref, Kenya Association of Manufacturers; Andrew Githaiga, SunFunder; Mutuma Marangu, Advisor & Private Investor and Ameet Shah, Astonfield Renewables. Chaired by Jon Marks, Cross-border Information, the panel analysed how commercial and industrial consumers across Africa are developing and financing their own generation capacity and its...

Kathleen Jean-Pierre, Vision & Delivery Lead, CrossBoundary Energy was on a panel at the Bloomberg NEF Summit telling the audience about our African Commercial and Industrial Solar platform.  Simbarashe Mhuriro, Oxygen Africa, Chris Weston, Aggreko, Charlotte Aubin, GreenWish Partners and Antoine Prédour, responsAbility Investments AG were also panellists. Takehiro Kawahara, Bloomberg NEF, moderated

Erik Urosa and James Shoetan attended the 20th edition of the Future Energy East Africa Conference & EXPO in Nairobi to engage with sector stakeholders on how supportive regulatory environments, project design best practices, and financial risk mitigation could facilitate private investment in solar for businesses and mini-grids.

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 Energy’s activities in Africa’s 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 we’re expanding in rural electrification. His host was Todd Moss, Senior Fellow, at the Center for Global Development.