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Mini-Grid Innovation Insight: Appliance Financing 3.0 – CrossBoundary Innovation Lab
Cheap, reliable power from mini-grids enables income-generating activity and is driving consumption, finds CrossBoundary’s Mini-Grid Innovation Lab in their latest Innovation Insight: Appliance Financing 3.0. Download the full Innovation Insight to learn more. CrossBoundary’s Innovation Lab funded developers who deployed 326 income-generating machines on credit to customers across 25 sites...
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Mini-Grid Tariff Reduction Innovation Insight: Reducing tariff leads to large and sustained increases in demand on mini-grids
CrossBoundary's Innovation Lab recently completed an analysis of the Tariff Reduction prototype, which the Lab ran from 2018 to 2022 in Tanzania. The findings prove that mini-grids can deliver lower tariffs to rural customers with significantly fewer subsidies than the main grid. Why? Lower tariffs significantly increase consumption, and these...
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We need an energy access revolution: A new approach to innovation can help
Labs News April 30, 2021
Smart inverters and mini-grids: has the grid of the future arrived in Africa?
Labs News November 25, 2020
CrossBoundary Innovation Lab Innovation Insight Predicting Consumption
Labs News December 12, 2019
Innovation Insight: Appliance FinancingInnovation Insight: Appliance Financing
Labs News August 7, 2019