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Femi Fadugba, our Associate Principal was honored to speak at the third edition of Unlocking Solar Capital Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. He discussed CrossBoundary Energy’s landmark solar project with Unilever Tea Kenya; Unilever’s first solar services agreement in Africa. Thanks to Solarplaza and GOGLA for organizing the event.

During today’s knowledge exchange on blended finance, Kathleen Jean-Pierre, our Energy Vision and Delivery, presented as part of a panel with Duncan Onyango, Team Leader & Investment Lead at Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme (SUED), Lilian Mramba, Regional Director for Africa, Grassroots Business Fund, and Njeri Kirumbi, Senior Investment Officer, BlueOrchard Finance Ltd. Ladé Araba, Africa Region Representative at Convergence...

We co-hosted an event on Blended Finance at our Nairobi office last week, with Convergence Blended Finance, the global network for blended finance. We could not have done it without our co-host, Ladé Araba, Africa Region Representative at Convergence Blended Finance. It was great to see the platform they are building and learn about the latest developments and trends in...

Our Nairobi office was pleased to host the UNICEF delegation of Kenyan and Somali youth activists and entrepreneurs to discuss our work in investment and renewable energy. We were represented by Matt Tilleard our co-Managing Partner, Gabriel Davies our Head of Energy Access and Richard Stanford our Senior Engineer.

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