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PowerHub Range: Sun King Launches New Solar Products Designed to Replace the Grid

A split image comprised of two images. The image on the left shows two men in PPE installing solar panels on a tiled roof. The image on the left shows the PowerHub 3300 against a yellow background.

Designed to deliver continuous power to homes, businesses, and institutions, the PowerHub 3300 marks the debut of Sun King’s new PowerHub range. The product range is engineered for those with no access to electricity or grappling with a broken, unreliable grid connection. Solar energy company Sun King unveils its PowerHub series, a new range of…

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Securitisation: An Old Tool for Africa’s New Green Frontier?

A Sun King engineer in a yellow helmet installs a solar panel on a blue roof in Kenya.

Securtisation reshaped America’s housing market. Today, a new challenge calls: helping finance Africa’s green transition. Sun King’s Anish Thakkar and Krishna Swaroop explore how the securitisation of pay-as-you-go finance for off-grid solar can bring reliable, green electricity to those without power and light. By Anish Thakkar and Krishna Swaroop Securitisation, a financial innovation that emerged…

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Sun King and Citi Close First $130 Million Securitisation to Broaden Access to Finance for Off-Grid Solar in Kenya

The scalable loan instrument, arranged and structured by Citi with participation from leading development finance institutions and commercial lenders, helps expand Kenyans’ access to finance to purchase green, affordable solar systems. Sun King and Citi have established a first-of-its-kind, bank-led and entirely Kenyan-Shilling-denominated $130 million sustainable securitisation transaction. The transaction leverages Sun King’s existing and…

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