Rajiv H. Shah, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, co-hosted an Alliance Partners Roundtable with All On, RMI, and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) to discuss barriers to scaling minigrids and the innovative solutions needed by developers and investors.
RMI’s Energizing Agriculture Programme, the Demand Aggregation for Renewable Technologies (DART) program, Utility Enabled DERs and DER Roadmap were highlighted as opportunities to learn lessons and address the challenge of ensuring that 590 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa gain access to electricity.