{"id":11632,"date":"2020-11-20T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","slug":"africa-crossboundary-secures-40-million-to-provide-solar-power-to-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/20\/africa-crossboundary-secures-40-million-to-provide-solar-power-to-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: CrossBoundary secures $40 million to provide solar power to businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) obtains funds to continue its expansion in Africa. The company, which supplies solar power to commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) customers, has raised $40 million through its first fund with a 15% net internal rate of return (IRR). As part of this transaction, ARCH Emerging Markets Partners\u2019 Africa Renewable Power Fund (ARCH ARPF) provided $40 million in equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARCH ARPF\u2019s interest in renewable energy is not new, as the fund is scouting for investment opportunities in the very dynamic clean energy sector in sub-Saharan Africa. A few weeks ago, the Mauritius-based investment fund invested US$3 million in Sun Exchange, a peer-to-peer solar leasing platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Financing that calls for more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its investment in CBE should consolidate its African ambitions. CrossBoundary Energy intends to build on these funds to continue to develop, build and operate distributed solar C&amp;I projects\u00a0\u201cthat will provide African businesses with access to cheaper and cleaner energy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis commitment from ARCH ARPF supports the next phase of a larger $100 million transaction that will enable us to scale up the C&amp;I sector across Africa, further reducing energy costs for our clients, creating additional jobs in the solar sector and significantly reducing carbon emissions,\u201d\u00a0says Pieter Joubert, CrossBoundary Energy\u2019s Chief Investment Officer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/africa-crossboundary-secures-40-million-to-provide-solar-power-to-businesses\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) obtains funds to continue its expansion in Africa. The company, which supplies solar power to commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) customers, has raised $40 million through its first&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}