Scaling-up off-grid solar: Team Europe and ISA discuss lessons from India and their potential application in sub-Saharan Africa

d.light is a company which provides a range of off-grid, solar-powered lighting solutions across the developing world.

Discover more about the project and our operations in Kenya

The European Investment Bank is financing climate action projects across Africa: encouraging the shift to renewable energy, helping countries to adapt to changing weather conditions and reducing the environmental consequences of waste and wastewater. Discover these different projects in our video!

The Reencontro Association in Maputo, Mozambique runs sewing workshops using machines running on solar energy. How is this possible? These machines are SolarWorks products. This company is innovating in solar power systems, particularly with sewing machines and other appliances. Their objective is provide clean affordable energy to households and make productive use of renewable energy.

In Africa solar power mobile towers can help extend the network and cut out diesel power. Here’s how a company in Guinea is extending digital opportunities, sustainably.

Solar projects in rural areas have brought lighting in the villages, clean drinking water, helping women in their daily lives and children to study. European External Action Service Managing Director for Asia Pacific, Gunnar Wiegand salutes the fact that Europeans and Indians are working hand in hand on these projects.

EIB projects in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have brought reliable renewable solar and wind energy to people and are empowering women – girls in their studies with the electricity to power computers and women with a more secured mobility at nighttime through street lighting.

EIB's contribution to India's Solar Power Sector and the International Solar Alliance

Ahead of the International Solar Alliance summit in New Delhi the President of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer signed today a new EUR 150 million long-term loan with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) to support renewable energy investment across India. More than 1.1 million Indian households are expected to benefit from clean energy produced by renewable energy schemes financed by the new initiative.

For more than 50 years, the EIB has been the European Union’s international development bank. The publication “the European Investment Bank around the World” explains in a nutshell how the EIB is improving lives everywhere.

In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa’s banking sectors and the policy options for all stakeholders.

African countries are using technology in many new ways to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This report highlights some of the best digital solutions and estimates the investments required to implement the technology on a wider scale.

This publication presents micro impact studies from the second cycle of the EIB-GDN research programme.