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31 October 2024: Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities (PREO) is excited to announce the winners of its latest innovation funding round, marking a significant milestone in extending the programme’s impact to Pacific Island Countries. Following a competitive call for proposals, seven

£2.2 Million Awarded to Groundbreaking Initiatives as PREO Advances Commitment to Productive Use of Renewable Energy Solutions Across sub-Saharan Africa The Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities (PREO) programme has committed over £2 million in catalytic grant funding for its fourth round,

Few know better than farmers what it is to depend on the weather. In most areas of Zambia, there is no rain for almost half the year, falling mostly between December and April. And when the rains do come, they

SokoFresh is a Kenya-based for-profit social enterprise specialising in affordable pay-as-you-go cold storage and market linkage services for rural communities engaged in perishable commodity production. The shortage of refrigeration infrastructure results in significant product and financial losses for farmers and

An open call, announced today, is offering grant funding up to £200,000 per project to support productive use of renewable energy (PURE) enterprises to demonstrate and strengthen their business models to scale their impact in Pacific Island Countries. The open

Immediate release: 30 November 2023: An open call to innovators, out today, is offering a share of €3.6million to help scale start-ups which support people and the planet. This is the first of three rounds of funding planned through Powering

In the arid region of Somaliland, rain-fed agriculture dominates the farming landscape, as irrigated farms make up a small fraction of cultivated land. However, mounting water scarcity, a consequence of climate change, is making rain-fed farming increasingly unfeasible. Moreover, surging

In September 2022, Kampala-based social enterprise Bodawerk completed their PREO-supported field trial of farm mechanisation services powered by renewable energy in rural northern Uganda. The trial tested the deployment of their multi-purpose electric tractor which provided local smallholder farmers with

Ecobodaa is a Kenyan start-up with a vision; to replace the country’s 1.3 million polluting petrol motorcycles with locally designed and assembled electric motorcycles, cutting emissions and improving air quality. This vision has just received a significant boost, with Ecobodaa