Financement-prive.pdf. Les pôles de Compétitivité - Le guide pratique sur les possibilités de financement de l’Union européenne pour la recherche et l’innovation - Moteur de croissance et d'emploi. Everybody Solar Reaches Crowdfunding Goal For Wildlife Nonprofit. California-based energy nonprofit Everybody Solar says JinkoSolar and the All Points North Foundation (APNF) have backed a 27 kW solar installation for Wildlife Associates, a San Francisco educational nonprofit. The project is the result of a crowdfunding campaign that Everybody Solar launched in September 2014. Donations met the campaign goal of $78,500, allowing construction on the solar array to commence in April. The APNF provided a $30,000 grant. JinkoSolar donated 90 72-cell 305 W photovoltaic modules valued at approximately $20,000. "The installation will significantly reduce the organization’s electricity costs, allowing more resources to go toward its mission," says Mark Dudzinski, APNF solar subcommittee chair and board member.
L’AFD a consacré 36,5% de ses financements à l'Afrique subsaharienne en 2014. (Agence Ecofin) - L'Agence française de développement (AFD) a consacré 36,5 % de ses financements à l'Afrique subsaharienne en 2014, selon le bilan annuel de l’institution publié le 17 mars. Pivot de la politique française de coopération, l’AFD a, au total, engagé l’an passé un montant record de 8,1 milliards d'euros dans le financement de projets de développement (+4% par rapport à 2013) à travers le monde, a-t-on ajouté de même source.
«Le cap des 8 milliards d'euros de financement a été franchi pour la première fois de l'histoire de l'institution, 3,7 milliards dévolus au continent africain», a déclaré à la presse Anne Paugam, directrice générale de l’AFD. C’est dire que l'Afrique reste une zone d'intervention prioritaire de l’agence, conformément à «l'objectif fixé par le président François Hollande d'apporter au continent 20 milliards de financement d'ici à 2018». L'Asie comme l'Amérique latine ont chacune mobilisé l'an dernier 1,2 milliard d'euros l’an passé. Lire aussi. SOTIR_2013_French. Lighting Africa expands into Nigeria: pv-magazine. 12. March 2015 | Off-grid, Special Offgrid | By: Peter Carvill World Bank and IFC-backed program expands to increase energy access for millions in the African nation.
Off-grid solar investment in Nigeria is going from strength-to-strength. Flickr/Yegwa The World Bank has signalled its intent to connect more than 5 million people in Nigeria to electricity by 2017 in the next stage of its Lighting Africa program. According to a statement released on the World Bank's website, the scheme aims to work in partnership with local and global manufacturers, and will look to develop and build supply chains for off-grid lighting products.
Itotia Njagi, program manager for Lighting Africa, said, “Lighting Africa is helping to build a market to bring off-grid lighting and energy services across Africa by establishing quality standards, investing in consumer education, creating a favorable investment climate, and supporting innovative business models. First Solar et SunPower vont introduire le yieldco 8point3 en bourse. (Agence Ecofin) - Les fabricants de panneaux solaires First Solar et SunPower vont prochainement introduire le yieldco 8point3 en bourse. Un yieldco est une société publique axée sur la croissance des dividendes et utilisée dans l’industrie des énergies renouvelables pour protéger les investisseurs contre certains risques liés à l’investissement, tout en leur assurant des bénéfices réguliers et d’une certaine importance. L’introduction en bourse de 8point3 sera assurée par Goldman Sachs et Citigroup. Le nombre d’actions à émettre et leur valeur ne sont pas encore connus pour le moment.
Il possédera et gérera un groupe d’actifs de production énergétique possédés par ses deux compagnies mères. First Solar et SunPower sont deux des leaders mondiaux en matière d’énergie solaire. 8point3 leur permettra de se remettre dans la course face à SunEdison qui les devançait tous les deux depuis la création de son yieldco TerraForm Power. Improved access to public finance for solar may unlock the potential for distributed generation in Brazil | Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory. Next to the utility segment, the commercial/residential rooftop segment of the Brazilian PV market offers good market potential, driven by very favorable conditions for self-consumption of generated power. Yet, the segment to date has not been able to reach significant scale. One of the main reasons for this is a lack of affordable funding. Apricum Project Manager Martin Mitscher examines Brazil’s solar financing challenges and advocates the role for public and private actors in developing suitable financing solutions, as successfully demonstrated abroad.
Insignificant PV market development to date despite legislative backing After putting a strong focus on hydro and wind energy in past years, Brazil’s government has provided the legislative basis to incorporate solar energy in the country’s power generation mix. Already in 2012, the Brazilian government had passed a bill establishing net metering for small-scale renewable power. Net metering explained Solar irradiation Electricity tariffs. Materials for long-term PV performance and higher financial returns | Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory. In this interview with Florian Haacke, Apricum partner and head of the solar materials practice, we find out how innovative materials drive PV module performance directly determining system cost and why they are therefore an important consideration for PV system owners.
Looking back over the last 12 months, can it be said that PV module technology matured in 2014? With projected annual growth rates of around 15–20% over the next five years, PV is still a highly dynamic growth market. Grid parity has been achieved in several parts of the world, with many additional regions to follow in the next three years. Attaining grid parity requires constant system cost reduction with parallel performance improvements. The progression of this cost/performance ratio is by far not at its end, and will be advanced mainly by technological innovation driven by new materials. Where are system lifetimes moving? Before PV industry consolidation, a system owner did not need to be an expert in PV materials. FOE_Full_Report. Solar financing innovation in Southeast Asia.
12 / 2012, Financial & Legal Affairs | By: Ragna Schmidt-Haupt Solar financing: The financial turmoil afflicting world markets and established PV players is leading to some innovative financing solutions for projects across the burgeoning Southeast Asian region, as Ragna Schmidt-Haupt, of global consultancy GL Garrad Hassan investigates. While companies like Conergy have been offering EPC for many years in various markets, they are prepared to go one step further. Above is a Conergy-developed project in Thailand. Photos: Conergy AG To secure attractive projects, companies all along the solar supply chain are now ready to go downstream. Southeast Asia proves to be especially innovative when it comes to financing, as solar companies integrate further downstream and provide equity during the development phase.
New funds with a clear renewable energy focus are being incorporated in Southeast Asia. Why is SEA proving so attractive to solar investors, and what kind of innovation are we seeing? NVI Energy's Solar4Africa: 'One-stop-shop' funding. 05. March 2015 | Applications & Installations, Financial & Legal Affairs, Global PV markets, Industry & Suppliers, Markets & Trends, Investor news | By: Peter Carvill It could be posited with reason that the off-grid solar market is still one that is finding its feet, and still in the period that all new industries go through as it tries to make sense of how it can best serve its market.
Innovative financing techniques are emerging as the offgrid market matures, in this the first in a series of articles on innovation in the offgrid space. NVI Energy's "pay-as-you-use" solar plant at Cheli and Peacock's Tortilis Camp in Kenya's Amboseli National Park has been in operation for more than six months. NVI Energy In February, the Tortilis Camp project in Kenya celebrated its first six months in operation. Financing for the project was set in place by NVI Energy through its Solar4Africa (S4A) platform. Muir says that NVI Energy has developed three approaches to tackle this challenge. How Results Based Financing is spurring solar market development in Tanzania. By Martijn Veen, Josh Sebastian & Maarten Kleijn, SNV Tanzania With only 14% of Tanzanians having access to electricity and a vast majority of the country expected to remain off-grid for the coming decades, innovative financing mechanisms are needed to spur last-mile distribution of clean energy solutions.
SNV is among the first organizations world-wide piloting Results Based Financing (RBF) in the energy sector, aimed to overcome market failures constraining private sector delivery of modern energy services to isolated communities. The key feature of RBF is payment upon delivery, with the private sector expected to take the full risk until the moment of delivery of the contracted results. In Tanzania, the RBF initiative was launched for pico-solar PV lighting applications in the Lake Zone, which is considered to be the first operational RBF fund functioning under the global Energising Development (EnDev) programme as managed by GIZ and RVO and funded by DFID. Results-based funding makes solar possible in Tanzania: pv-magazine. 04. March 2015 | Global PV markets, Industry & Suppliers, Markets & Trends, Off-grid | By: Edgar Meza SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is partnering with other international development agencies, banks and private-sector companies on a new initiative aimed at bringing much needed solar solutions to people without access to electricity.
The RBF initiative is assisting the private sector in developing the market for pico-solar products in isolated rural areas. Innovative new financing schemes are opening up new opportunities to supply much needed power to communities in Tanzania, where only 14% of the population has access to electricity. In a recent report, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation says that while a vast majority of the country is likely to remain off-grid for decades, financing initiatives like its new results-based funding (RBF) program can help bring together the private sector and isolated communities desperately in need of modern energy devices. Solar PV at grid parity in 80% of globe by 2017: pv-magazine. 02. March 2015 | Financial & Legal Affairs, Markets & Trends, Global PV markets | By: Jonathan Gifford A new report from a MENA region bank shows that solar will be at grid parity within two years in 80% of the world.
The Middle East's leading bank, the NBAD, presented the report on Sunday, concluding that the recent DEWA solar auction demonstrated that solar is competitive with oil at $10/barrel and gas at $5/MMbtu. CSP and PV projects are being developed in the gulf states to close the energy gap. Enviromena Power Systems The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) presented its Financing the Future of Energy Report at the Global Financial Markets Forum currently underway in Abu Dhabi.
It concluded that growing energy demand would require $48 trillion in investment over the next 20 years to close the energy demand and supply gap. The Financing the Future of Energy Report sets out four main pillars. The second pillar confirms the proven and cost-effective nature of renewable deployment. Schneider Electric crée un fonds pour l’accès à l’énergie en Afrique.
(Agence Ecofin) - Le groupe français Schneider Electric vient de lancer l’Energy Access Ventures Fund. Ce fonds d’une dotation de 54,5 millions d’euros est destiné au financement de projets d’accès à l’énergie en Afrique subsaharienne. Géré par Aster Capital, il permettra, à travers le financement d’une vingtaine de PME africaines sur 5 ans, d’électrifier un million de foyers d’ici 2020. Les PME concernées sont celles proposant des sources d’accès à l’énergie sobres en carbone et à bas prix. Elles bénéficieront en outre d’un appui technique. L’Energy Access Venture Fund a mobilisé des capitaux auprès de plusieurs institutions européennes, notamment de l’Agence française pour le développement (AFD), la Banque européenne d’investissement (BEI), le Fonds de l’organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Ofid) et le Fonds d’investissement et de soutien aux entreprises en Afrique (Fisea, géré par l’AFD). Crowdfunding for renewable energy projects | wind & solar - THEnergy.
INAISE | International Association of Investors in the Social Economy. Google invests $300m in SolarCity's $750m residential PV fund: pv-magazine. 26. February 2015 | Applications & Installations, Global PV markets, Financial & Legal Affairs, Industry & Suppliers, Markets & Trends, Top News | By: Ian Clover The tech giant announces sizeable increase in solar energy commitment, dwarfing previous $280 million investment in SolarCity. Google's $300 million investment in SolarCity's residential fund will benefit an additional 25,000 U.S. homeowners. Flickr/orngejuglr Google has today shattered its previous renewable energy investment record by announcing it has poured $300 million into SolarCity’s $750 million fund for residential solar PV projects. The announcement dwarfs Google’s $280 million investment in SolarCity in 2011, and serves as a bold statement of intent for the tech giant – and a ringing endorsement of solar power’s growing prominence in the U.S. energy landscape.
"Corporations are starting to realize the importance of using clean energy," said SolarCity chief executive Lyndon Rive. Citizenergy | Renewable energies. IEA report examines ways to lower PV cost barriers in emerging regions: pv-magazine. 06. February 2015 | Applications & Installations, Financial & Legal Affairs, Global PV markets, Markets & Trends, Investor news | By: Ian Clover The Innovative Business Models and Financing Mechanisms for PV Deployment in Emerging Regions assesses the pros and cons of six different types of funding methods.
Bringing solar PV to rural and emerging areas is fraught with challenges, not least financial ones. SolarAid The International Energy Agency (IEA) has today published a report that examines best practice when financing solar PV deployment in regions where interest in the technology is emerging. The report, Innovative Business Models and Financing Mechanisms for PV Deployment in Emerging Regions, focuses on six case studies that each take a different approach to delivering affordable PV to areas that may typically struggle to overcome the initial problem of high upfront costs. The Indigo has a pay-as-you-go controller that works when a valid code is entered into its keypad. The Solar Energy Finance Association. Solectria Renewables and Upsolar collaborate to offer finance and technology package: pv-magazine. 22. January 2015 | | By: Solectria Renewables, LLC Solectria Renewables, LLC, a leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Upsolar America whereby Solectria will supply its PVI 3800-7600TL, single-phase, transformerless, residential inverters for Upsolar's turnkey financing and installation solution known as the Energy Freedom Loan Program.
Upsolar's Energy Freedom Loan Program allows residential customers to overcome the primary barriers of solar adoption, such as upfront costs and lease commitments, while knowing their PV system is powered by Solectria's state of the art, single-phase, residential inverters. This program's performance solution also includes Upsolar’s high quality modules and racking. “Partnerships like this have established Solectria as a leading inverter manufacturer.
This partnership reflects a trend in residential solar away from solar leasing to loan options and direct ownership of PV systems.