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Are you a company with experience scaling productive use of energy #PUE solutions in #Mozambique or elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa? Are you looking for financing to support your business #growth? Check our ongoing funding round in Mozambique! 📅Apply for Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa funding by 13 September! 👉 Read all details, Application Guidelines in English and Portuguese and registration to the online system: https://lnkd.in/dn3kARJs #BGFA #ProductiveUseEnergy #PUE #EnergyAccess #CleanEnergy #Subsaharanafrica #Funding #CallforProposal Embassy of Sweden Sida Nefco - the Nordic Green Bank AMER - Mozambican Renewable Energy REEEP - Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership NIRAS International Consulting Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Udenrigsministeriet KfW Power Africa

I had the chance to visit GOGLA’s member Ecozen in Pune, Maharashtra, on Friday. Under the brand, Ecozen commercializes solar pumps (under ECOTRON) and digitized solar cold rooms (under ECOFROST) across all over the country since 2010, where the company installs and operates the systems, providing with an opportunity to interact and work with small-holder farmers directly. Today, the company counts with over 500 permanent employees in India. So far, the company has installed hundreds of cold rooms in India, and this has generated an incredible amount of data, experience and capabilities. In Africa, Ecozen works with a number of local distributors. Other solar PV cold-room companies include Baridi (Tracy Kimathi), in Kenya, another GOGLAs member, among other cooling companies. 📉 Learnings from past work by Ecozen show top-down solutions will not work, as underutilization of cold rooms by farmers was an unfortunate and common situation. 📈 Ecozen has, ever since, learnt and nowadays, under bottom-up and ecosystem-based approaches, the company is generating demand to drive high utilization rates for cold rooms. This is translated into farmers appropriating the systems and using the most of it. 🎷 This has been possible thanks to their close collaboration with key actors, such Sustain Plus+ or SELCO Foundation, among others. These organizations stimulate on-the-ground farming associative tissue, providing the right capabilities and collective action for companies like Ecozen to thrive. 🥑 In addition, the company has provided off-takers connections with end-users, hence enabling stable commercial transactions, proving the business sustainable overtime. 🏣 Finally, Indian government provides the right financial services, with low-interest credits and 35% subsidies. States like Maharashtra are intending to install over 400 cold-rooms in last-mile areas over the coming years, so gigantic opportunities exist. 🚨 While digitized and highly efficient cold-rooms technologies are available, the ecosystem under which such companies operate are not yet enabling scalability. For this, more efforts are needed into the collective association of farming communities, last-mile awareness raising of end-users, and sensitization of policy markers at national and state-level departments (as technologies and market opportunities not fully realized yet). Carbon credits for the sector would also help bringing landing costs down and boosting the technologies in new geographies. We also visited ECOFROS’s assembly park, where we had the chance to touch the systems and interact with the technology directly. Amazing visit for which we very much thank Ravindra Dolare and Karthik Govindavajulla, among other colleagues of Ecozen! Patrick Tonui, Praviin B Kumaar, karsan reddy, Leo Blyth, Jakub Vrba, Nyamolo Abagi, Charlotte Heffer, Christopher Beland, Bakengana Paddy (B.PAM, MSc), Elizabeth Christine Nyambura CEM®, Geetanjali Purkayastha, Bas Hetterscheid

EXCITING NEWS! The Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (#REAN) partnered with Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC and GOGLA to host a 1-day sector workshop in Abuja on 'Aligning Sector Strategies with Net Zero Commitment'. Hon. Afam Victor Ogene, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Renewable Energy, discussed the “Energy Transition Plan and Challenges Hindering Energy Security in the Nation.” He highlighted the Nigeria Energy Transmission Plan (#ETP), established in 2021 with COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference support, which outlines a pathway for Nigeria to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060. The event featured a panel session with representatives from the National Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade & Investment (FMITI), Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking (NACC), and the Energy Transition Office/Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). The session was moderated by the Managing Consultant of Energy Market and Rates Consultant (EMRC). Ayo Ademilua (FICA), President of REAN, delivered the welcome address followed by goodwill messages from the Rural Electrification Agency of Nigeria (#REA), Energy Transition Office/Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC (#HBS), and Just Transition & Inclusion, NESP-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Ayo Ademilua (FICA) Damilola Asaleye Safiya Aliyu Bilky Gambo Bassey Obeten Oisereime Lloyd - Dietake #RenewableEnergy #NetZero #AbujaWorkshop #ENERGY #EnergySolutions #RenewableEnergy #Solar #Electrification #Ecosystem #NEPT #REA #REAN #GIZ #ETP #EnergyTransition

The Global Association for the Off-Grid Solar Energy Industry GOGLA team recently visited #SahyadriFarms. The delegation included notable members such as Carlos Sordo , PURE Program Manager, Praviin B Kumaar, Regional Head of South Asia, karsan reddy , Program Officer for South Asia, and Patrick Tonui , Policy Director at GOGLA. The focus of their visit was to explore renewable energy projects in collaboration with the Sustain Plus Energy Foundation, including the innovative solar dryer unit and solar pump. This visit provided an in-depth look at how these Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) assets are revolutionizing farming efficiency and creating sustainable income sources for farmers. Observing the practical applications of solar dryers and pumps offered the team valuable insights into their real-world benefits. The knowledge and experiences gained will be instrumental in enhancing similar renewable energy programs across Africa and Europe. Engaging with stakeholders at Sahyadri Farms, they delved into the challenges and solutions associated with these technologies, underscoring their positive impact on farming communities. This visit highlighted the crucial role of solar technology in promoting sustainable agricultural practices and improving the livelihoods of farmers. #renewableenergy #sustainablefarming #solartechnology #agriculture #gogla #sustainplus #tatatrusts #sahyadrifarms #solardryer #solarpump #sahyadrians