Turning Up the Volume: Financial Aggregation for Off-Grid Energy

The paper Turning Up the Volume: Financial Aggregation for Off-Grid Energy seeks to give an overview of approaches to financial aggregation, highlighting how aggregation models tackle barriers to reaching scale in the decentralised small-scale renewable energy sector. Through examining five case studies – the Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Ignite Power, SunFunder and E+Co – interviews with experts and a review of the literature, it offers thoughts on the characteristics of the emerging approaches and seek to understand what is driving success and where challenges remain.