M-KOPA, a connected asset financing platform that offers underserved and unbanked customers across Africa access to life enhancing products and services, has just released its Impact Report for 2021. M-KOPA was established over 10 years ago, and pioneered and helped catalyze the growth of the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar market. By combining the power of digital micro-payments […]

Roughly every five years, Congress passes legislation known as the Farm Bill, a nearly trillion-dollar package of investments that touches all of our lives, every day. It determines who US farmers and farm workers are, what they grow, how they grow it, who can afford it, and who profits from it, and with each cycle, […]

Company faces growing competition in emerging sector.

The European Union will launch a “deep and comprehensive reform” of the electricity market, which is “no longer fit for purpose”.

Australia is a top source of lithium for EV batteries. Much of the world’s lithium used for such purposes comes from there. Now we’ve got news of a major lithium mine in Australia using batteries as well as solar and wind energy in order to mine more cleanly and — importantly for the miners — […]

Top American TP Brands like P&G’s Charmin Get “F” Grades in NRDC’s New Report & Scorecard, As More Sustainable Options Enter the Market

Annual inflation grew by 8.3% in August, but retirees won’t feel the sting of most higher costs, experts say.

Disclaimer: Interview conducted before the huge Inflation Reduction Act.  Benjamin Schulz: Gabriel, you’ve been investing in cleantech a long time, what changes have you seen from when you started up until today?  Gabriel: We started in 2009, and I worked in solar banking before that, from 2006 to 2009. So I’ve been around what was […]

The Renewable Energy Standard that mandates the use of ethanol in fuels is up for review this year. Should it be abolished?

A big issue amongst those of us with environmental concerns is: What happens to the batteries? It is a fair question and one that deserves to be taken seriously and answered properly. Even RedEarth, which supplies stationary home batteries, finds this the most common customer concern. We can point to large firms like Redwood Materials […]

President William Ruto was sworn in as the 5th president of the Republic of Kenya. In his address soon after being sworn in as president, he reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to transition to 100% clean energy by 2030. Kenya has already done really well when it comes to increasing the share of renewable energy in its […]

South Africa has been having issues with electricity supply for quite a while now. This has forced Eskom, the national power utility company, to implement load-shedding. The residential sector accounts for about 35% of electricity demand in peak hours in South Africa. Just like in most parts of Southern Africa, water heating is mostly done […]