Archive for the 'solar' Tag
Featured Photo: Homework continues after the sun goes down
Two students in India continue working on their homework after the sun goes down with the use of Greenlight Planet’s portable solar light. OPIC provided a $5 million in financing to help Greenlight Planet introduce affordable solar... Read more...
Featured Photo: Partnering to expand access to off-grid power
(From left to right) Amitesh Sinha, CFO, Greenlight Planet; Anish Thakkar, CEO, Greenlight Planet; Loren Rodwin, Managing Director of Small & Medium Enterprise Finance, OPIC; and Thomas Vajda, Counsel General, U.S. Consulate in Mumbai at a... Read more...
Featured Photo: Innovation supporting rural livelihoods in Tanzania
A Power Africa photo contest winner shows a man in Tanzania sewing at night with the aid of a solar light, which is helping to provide additional income generating opportunities for him and his family. The light, made available by d.... Read more...
Featured Photo: Illuminating remote Indian villages with solar power
Children do their school homework under a solar light provided by Simpa Networks, a Seattle company and OPIC client that used OPIC financing to introduce affordable solar power technology in remote Indian villages. Last month Simpa... Read more...
Focus on OPIC Impact Award winners: Simpa Energy India Ltd.
A young boy in rural India does his homework by a cooling fan, powered by solar energy provided by Simpa. When you expand access to energy, you expand access to opportunity. That was the founding premise of Simpa Energy India Ltd... Read more...
Featured photo: Bringing clean energy to Rwanda
Rwandan workers inspect solar panels at Gigawatt Global’s 8.5 megawatt solar facility east of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, shortly before the solar field’s opening ceremony in February 2014. The clean power project is East Africa’s first... Read more...
U.S.-Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative – Supporting renewable energy to power Africa
By John Morton, OPIC Chief of Staff Imagine an expanse of land stretching from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge in which most residents live their daily lives without a single watt of electricity. Some 300 million Americans... Read more...
Video: How one solar project brings multiple benefits to a community
In June, OPIC committed financing to First Solar, Inc. to support construction of the Luz del Norte solar photovoltaic park in Chile’s Atacama desert. The plant will be the largest photovoltaic project in Latin America, with a capacity of 141... Read more...
Powering Africa: The renewable energy opportunity
Third in a series looking at OPIC’s approach to powering Africa. For earlier posts see Powering Africa: The off-grid challenge, and Powering Africa: The on-grid challenge. The sun shines almost daily throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa,... Read more...
OPIC supported San Andres Solar Plant named Project Finance International’s Latin American Solar Deal of the Year
Last year, OPIC provided financing to SunEdison to construct one of the largest solar power facilities in the world, a photovoltaic plant in San Andres, Chile. As a mark of its innovation and scope, the project recently received... Read more...