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The Malalison Island Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid Pilot Project: The technology

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The Malalison Island Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid Pilot Project is a private sector joint venture with Antique Electric Cooperative, the electric distribution franchise holder, and One Renewable Energy Enterprise, Inc.

Empowering the People: Cobrador Island Solar Hybrid Project

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Affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all that meets environmental goals is central to global development and policy making. Access to electricity continues to improve in Asia and the Pacific, yet many rural areas lag behind due to challenges in the economic and…

Energy Access and Transition Trust Fund Approved

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The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) Energy Access and Transition Trust Fund has been approved under the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) Financing Partnership Facility. 
 
The Trust Fund will finance innovative distributed…

IEA projects RE new capacity to grow by 30% in 2023

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Propelled by the global energy crisis and concerns over energy security, economies around the world look to deploy renewable energy at an unprecedented rate led by solar photovoltaics and onshore wind. The International Energy Agency in its Renewable Energy Market Update, has even called this rise…

ADB calls for innovative financing for ocean health improvement

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At the launch of the publication, Financing the Ocean Back to Health in Southeast Asia: Approaches for Mainstreaming Blue Finance, ADB called for scaling up of finance flows into ocean health improvement and related projects in Asia and the Pacific to combat growing threats from unchecked…

Loan to leverage green recovery and financing approved for Indonesia

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On 16 February, the ADB Board approved a $150 million loan that will hedge a financing facility aimed at accelerating Indonesia’s economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and catalyzing public and private funds to support green and bankable infrastructure projects to help…

ADB signs loan to build the largest wind power plant in Central Asia

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The $52 million Zafarshan Wind Power Project loan agreement has been signed by ADB and and Shamol Zarafshan Energy Foreign Enterprise Limited Liability Company (SZE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company Private Joint Stock Company (Masdar) on 5 September. The loan will…

MOU signed for first coal power plant to be retired in Indonesia under ETM

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On 14 November 2022, ADB joined strategic partners in the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOU) under the Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) exploring the early decommissioning of the first coal-fired plant owned by Cirebon Electric Power (CEP), an independent power producer in…

Seven Funding Innovations to Boost Climate Finance

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 Countries must urgently step-up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect people and infrastructure from the increasing frequency and intensity of climate change.
 Asia and the Pacific needs innovative solutions and new funding models to meet its large…

Reinvigorating Financing Approaches for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure in ASEAN+3

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This report presents a practical toolkit of ways to merge public, private, institutional, and other forms of capital to deliver resilient, sustainable, and future-ready infrastructure in the ASEAN+3 region. It provides companies, investors, and policy makers a range of innovative financing models,…