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Welcome to the Financing and Funding Portal

This is your gateway to information on the funding and financing possibilities that are available to bridge gaps in the financial sphere for renewable energy.

Renewable Energy Finance and Policy

Finance

• Economics of Renewable Energy
• Barriers & Risks for RE Financing
• Off-grid Energy Companies and Financial Institutions - Need and Options for Collaboration

Policy

• Feed In Tariffs (FiT)
• Feed In Premium (FIP)
• Renewable Energy Quota and Certificate Schemes
• Renewable Energy Tendering Schemes
• Subsidies
• Energy Transition in Germany “Energiewende”
• Energy Transition Worldwide

Financial Instruments & Support

• Overview of Financial Instruments for RE
• Equity Finance
• Debt Finance
• Project Finance
• Competitive Tendering (Concessions, Auctions)
• Blockchain
• Grants
  • Results-Based Aid
  • Results-Based Financing
  • Result-Based Crowdfunding
  • Revolving Funds
• Renewable Energy Support Mechanisms: Feed-In Tariffs and Auctions
• Carbon Finance
  • Carbon Funding for Cookstoves
  • Carbon Markets for Biogas Digesters
  • Carbon Markets for Energy Access Projects
  • Carbon Markets for Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
  • Carbon Markets for Small Hydro Power
• Microfinance
  • Use of Microfinance Institutions (MFI) for Renewable Energy Technologies
  • Microfinance Institutions - Financing Renewable Energy
• Pay-as-you-go Approaches (PAYGO)
  • Market Development of PAYGO
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of PAYGO Approaches

Case Studies

• Access to Finance: Decoding the Mystery
• An Overview on Micro Hydro Debt Fund - Nepal
• Promoting Access to Finance in Benin
• Improving Access to Finance for Off-Grid Renewable Energy in Namibia
• Access to Finance for Renewable Energy Projects in Senegal
• Increasing Access to Energy and Access to Finance for Coffee Farmers in Uganda

Technologies

• Biogas
• Hydropower
• Solar Power
• Wind Power

Energy Use

• Rural Electrification - Cost Competitiveness
• Financing Mechanisms for Cookstove Dissemination
• Financing Sustainable Transport Use

Library

• Publications
• Tools
• Websites
• Bibliography- Energy, Development, Evaluation
• Renewable Energy Discussion Series
• OBA/RBF Community of Practice

Workshops

• Energizing Microfinance Workshop Documentation

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Financing and Funding Publications

• Powering Productivity: Lessons in Green Growth
• Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2019
• Towards Sustainable Bio-Economy - Lessons Learned from Case Studies

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Job offers

31 December 2025
Solar Engineer

31 December 2025
Senior Project Manager, Carbon Finance

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Opportunities

31 December 2025
Intergenerational Justice Prize (IJP)

12 January 2026
Call for research proposals: Case studies of innovation for scaling renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

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