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

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.