{"id":4367,"date":"2014-08-04T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/uncategorized-cn\/power-africa-is-doubling-down-on-investment-in-solar-markets-beyond-the-grid\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:12:58","slug":"power-africa-is-doubling-down-on-investment-in-solar-markets-beyond-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/power-africa-is-doubling-down-on-investment-in-solar-markets-beyond-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Africa is doubling down on investment in solar markets beyond the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Right now USA and African leaders are meeting in Washington for the US-Africa Leaders\u2019 Summit. The theme of the Summit is &#8220;Investing in the Next Generation&#8221; and one of the key elements required is the investment in and development of secure, clean energy supply.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two out of three sub-Sarahan Africans \u2014 600 million people \u2014 lack access to electricity. Earlier this summer, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced at an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a new $1 billion initiative as a part of Power Africa dubbed &#8220;Beyond the Grid.&#8221; The initiative builds on more than 25 small-scale energy projects already in the Power Africa pipeline to catalyze a distributed clean energy deployment. To build the initiative and drum up investment, the US government pulled together 27 founding partners &#8211; including impact investors, venture philanthropists, clean-energy enterprises, and practitioners &#8211; who have committed to invest over $1 billion over the next five years to seed and scale distributed energy solutions for millions of African homes, businesses, schools, and other public facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Green Power Labs, we developed a free solar map of the world. Based on free publicly available solar data, it is clear even at these less fine resolutions, that parts of Africa are excellent locations for distributed solar projects,\u201d said Marlene Moore, VP Marketing at Green Power Labs. \u201cOne of Africa\u2019s challenges is understanding the impact of heat and sand on the efficiencies of solar technologies. We have completed work to deepen understanding of these impacts for clients in other parts of the world and encourage community and energy leaders to plan appropriately for the special micro-climates in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Power Africa visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/powerafrica\">www.usaid.gov\/powerafrica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now USA and African leaders are meeting in Washin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}