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  By Lauren Everitt  Off Grid Electric provides pre-paid solar energy at affordable prices to people living off the grid. Xavier Helgesen had dealt with more than a few unexpected twists since moving to Tanzania after…

By Maria Ivanova / The Conversation February 5, 2016 Women, particularly those in developing countries, are on thefrontlines of a changing climate. Extreme weather events, deforestation and loss of biodiversity threaten their survival and that…

By Sean Whaley Review-Journal Capital Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada government and business leaders may have to shift at least part of their established economic development focus from renewable energy to other opportunities if new…

By Nancy Pfund The Obama administration’s announcement that the federal government will temporarily halt new coal leases on federal public lands in order to review its coal-leasing program is a long overdue move to serve…

By Megan Cowley Arusha – Tanzania, January 18, 2016 – Off Grid Electric, a Tanzania-based social enterprise, has been awarded the Zayed Future Energy Prize in the Small and Medium Enterprise category during an awards…

January 14, 2016 — A group of 18 venture capital investors have written Nevada’s public utility regulators, with copies to Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and state legislators, urging the regulators reverse new fees on utility…

by Erik Sass RallyPoint, a social network for current and former military service members, has raised an additional $5 million, the company revealed in a regulatory filing this week. The latest round of investment brings it…

By Product Hunt: Kathryn Minshew began her career as a management consultant at McKinsey, one of the best consulting firms in the world. That start is one many people coming out of college or an…

By Baraka Jefwa The U.S. Agency for International Development’s U.S. Global Development Lab today announced $5 million in follow-on funding to Off Grid Electric. The award, funded through the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program, will…

Discussions to better understand the role of various cleantech players INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT 09/12/2015 Through a partnership with the AFIC and in the symbolic setting of the Palais Brongniart, ENGIE New Ventures, the Group’s venture…

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and KEITH BRADSHER With the ink barely dry on a landmark climate accord, nations now face an even more daunting challenge: how to get their industries to go along. If nothing else, analysts and experts say,…