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Renewvia Energy Corp., which builds self-sufficient solar-powered mini-grids, is expanding into settlements in four African nations as efforts grow to address the shortage of power on the continent. <\/p>\n

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The expansion into Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will require about $750 million for 2.1 million connections, Renewvia Solar Africa Chief Executive Trey Jarrard said in an interview. <\/p>\n

At nearly 600 million people, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 80% of people without electricity globally. The World Bank and African Development Bank are heading up the Mission 300 program, in which tens of billions of dollars may be spent connecting 300 million Africans by 2030.<\/p>\n

Renewvia already operates 24 commercial mini-grids in Kenya and Nigeria, ranging from 100 kilowatts to 2.5 megawatts each, serving tens of thousands of rural people and commercial clients including Shell, UBA Bank and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/p>\n

For Kenya, the Atlanta-based company is also seeking $45 million in low-interest loans to expand a metro grid in Kakuma, a refugee settlement in the northwest, and develop a renewable plant in Dadaab, another region that also shelters people fleeing fighting in their homelands. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like it to be concessionary [affordable] financing because we can keep the tariff as low as possible if we have a longer tenure loan with lower interest rates,\u201d Jarrard said. <\/p>\n

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The loan will be to Renewvia Kakuma Ltd. It will backed by $8 million of existing assets that generate $500,000 in operating earnings annually, and the new project\u2019s $40 million of assets.<\/p>\n

The company hopes to multiply connections fivefold to more than 550,000 people in Kakuma and Dadaab, home to some of the largest refugees camps globally, Jarrard said. <\/p>\n

The company has established entities in Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia to facilitate early-stage development efforts. It\u2019s in talks with local authorities to set up a mini-grid in Baraka, a town of 270,000 people on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where some of its existing customers in Kakuma refugee camp are from.<\/p>\n

\u201cRenewvia could vastly turn into the largest humanitarian utility on the continent or in the world just because of what we see as really needed and working in those particular environments,\u201d Jarrard said.<\/p>\n

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