In October Sustainable Energy for All (SEForAll) released their 2019 Energizing Finance Report, a two-part report series that shines a light on financial investments in the electricity sector between 2015-2017. Overall, the report showed that while the sector is experiencing all-time high investments, commitments are still well below what’s needed to achieve universal energy access by…
By Alexia Kelly, CEO of Electric Capital Management and co-chair of LEDS Global Partnership Finance Working Group. Across Africa, India, and other regions of the Global South, there is an urgent need to mobilize funds into the distributed clean energy sector to provide access to clean, affordable, reliable energy for the 850 million people who live in energy poverty. Mobilizing…
No renewable energy project should move forward without seeking the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous communities, especially if there are plans to build directly on Indigenous lands. Unfortunately, that was not the case in the Unión Hidalgo agrarian community in Oaxaca State, Mexico. Without engaging the local community, Desarrollos Eólicos de México S.A…
By Alexia Kelly, CEO of Electric Capital Management and co-chair of LEDS Global Partnership Finance Working Group. Across Africa, India, and other regions of the Global South, there is an urgent need to mobilize funds into the distributed clean energy sector to provide access to clean, affordable, reliable energy for the 850 million people who live in…