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New $11.3 Million Facility to Bring Clean Energy to Nearly a Million People in Africa’s Conflict Zones

The African Development Bank Group has approved a $5.65 million grant to pilot a first-of-its-kind financing mechanism designed to solve one of clean energy’s most stubborn problems: getting capital into places where commercial lenders won’t go. The Peace Renewable Energy Certificate (P-REC) Aggregation Facility, co-financed with an equivalent contribution from the Nordic Development Fund, will direct a combined $11.3 million…