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Kenyan community-scale green innovator needs cash for solar lighting scheme - 14 Jun 2013Financing needed for 5MW solar project in India - 4 Jun 2013
Nigerian solar-powered race organiser seeks funding partners - 22 May 2013
UK start-up sets July deadline to raise equity for emerging market green activities - 11 May 2013US solar innovator needs bridge loan for local, Chinese projects - 30 Apr 2013 Soitec to launch equity offering to refinance convertible bond - 19 Jun 2013
California green homebuilder City Ventures eyes $150m IPO - 19 Jun 2013
SolarCity plans $175m note offering - 19 Jun 2013
US investor to pump cash into green IT - 18 Jun 2013
US organic PV developer aims to attract additional investors - 18 Jun 2013
Kenyan community-scale green innovator needs cash for solar lighting scheme - 14 Jun 2013Financing needed for 5MW solar project in India - 4 Jun 2013Nigerian solar-powered race organiser seeks funding partners - 22 May 2013UK start-up sets July deadline to raise equity for emerging market green activities - 11 May 2013US solar innovator needs bridge loan for local, Chinese projects - 30 Apr 2013
Geothermal innovator reveals equity needs for Californian project - 22 Apr 2013
Developer of Portuguese Eco Centre requires up to €5m - 16 Apr 2013UK innovator commercialising transport sharing solution has cash need - 8 Apr 2013Energy efficient engine developer needs cash to enter proving lab - 2 Apr 2013
Waste-to-oil technology developer seeks partnerships - 27 Mar 2013 Soitec to launch equity offering to refinance convertible bond - 19 Jun 2013
California green homebuilder City Ventures eyes $150m IPO - 19 Jun 2013
SolarCity plans $175m note offering - 19 Jun 2013
US investor to pump cash into green IT - 18 Jun 2013
US organic PV developer aims to attract additional investors - 18 Jun 2013
Indonesia sets up $300m geothermal fund - 18 Jun 2013
Malaysian power and water group Ranhill to IPO this month - 18 Jun 2013
German utility to sell off non-core assets - 18 Jun 2013
Middle Eastern investors to finance green project developments - 17 Jun 2013
UK city to be innovation test-bed as European Green Capital for 2015 - 17 Jun 2013
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Power technology company Intelligent Energy has launched a collaboration with telecommunications company Etisalat Nigeria to test personal energy devices for consumers. 
The first Desertec concept solar power plant, the largest yet to be built in North Africa, has begun construction in Morocco, in a welcome boost to the initiative after a series of setbacks hampered its efforts last year. 
Siemens Energy has been awarded an onshore wind power order for the 100MW Sere plant on the west coast of South Africa. 
Canadian Solar’s partner Romano has won the contract for a solar installation on the headquarters of Eskom, the largest producer of electricity in South Africa. 
Power systems provider S&C Electric will look to South Africa and the Middle East as it aims for 50 per cent growth of its EMEA division in 2013. 
Private equity investment in Africa with a strong commitment to sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices will create both stronger returns for investors and sustainable benefits for the local communities in which these businesses operate, a new report has stressed. 
UK development finance investor CDC Group has signed a $100m risk participation arrangement with Standard Chartered Bank to help increase the availability of trade finance in developing countries. 
ABB has won an order worth around $25m to supply electrical equipment to a 75MW solar plant being developed in the Northern Cape province of South Africa by WBHO. 
Sudan’s biggest sugar producer Kenana will look to raise $200m in an initial public offering in South Africa next year. 
Wasabi Energy, a clean technology company dual listed in Australia and London, said preparations for a listing of its Asian subsidiary are well underway with it about to hit the fundraising trail. 
French solar developer Soitec has closed the sale of its ZAR1bn ($111m) senior unsecured bond for the support of its 44MW solar project in the Western Cape of South Africa. 
Emerging markets focused private equity firm Actis is reportedly looking to raise $750m for its third energy fund. 
Mergence Investment Managers, a South African asset manager told NewNet it is targeting ZAR5bn ($544m) for a renewable energy debt fund that has already attracted commitment from metalworkers’ pension funds. 
South African metalworkers’ pension funds are to plunge ZAR1bn ($109m) into green power projects. 
US-based AAE Systems has won a 150MW geothermal tender in Uganda and will now build a plant in Kasese in the west of the country. 
The solar industry is facing serious issues throughout the world, with bankruptcies occurring at some of the largest Chinese solar firms, European firms reporting losses and divesting assets, and a downsizing of the world’s largest solar project in the US. 
French PV company Soitec Solar’s South African subsidiary has raised ZAR1bn($100m) to finance its Touwsrivier solar project in the country through the sale of listed bonds. 
A 600MW power tender has opened in Botswana in an effect to kick-start an energy industry being held back by the lack of dependable buyers. 
SolarCentury CEO Frans van den Heuvel told NewNet it is on the brink of opening an office in Kenya as it looks to cushion against falling European demand by internationalising into emerging markets. 
Pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners’s portfolio company Finagestion has won a three-year technical services contract with Régie de distribution d'eau, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s water distribution company. 
