Financing off-grid solar energy access: hypotheses on covid-19 long term impacts

Rapport Working paper Financing off-grid solar energy access: hypotheses on covid-19 long term impacts eng 2020 author Balkenhol Bernhard 643061 author Martinez Gutierrez Catalina 698771 27 10.2139/ssrn.3677996 Off-grid solar energy (OGS) is instrumental to achieve access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (Sustainable Development Goal 7, SDG7). More than half of the progress made in the last decade towards SDG7 was owed to path-breaking OGS start-ups. The global crisis brought by the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) can reduce OGS customers' ability to pay, disrupt OGS value chains, and freeze capital flows into the sector. This study proposes a set of hypotheses on the long-term changes that COVID-19 will bring to the OGS sector. These hypotheses were discussed throughout 20 in-depth interviews with senior level representatives of key investors and OGS companies. The interview results reported in this paper are aimed at documenting the collective intelligence of these stakeholders, which may be instrumental in guiding the OGS sector to weather the COVID-19 crisis. SDG7 Off-grid solar energy COVID-19 Finance Dewey 650 JEL G21 116 Geneva Finance Research Institute S4 false 2040b55d-4197-4b62-adde-f0cee1b4256c Working paper Public SubmittedGFRI.pdf 476948 application/pdf openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Geneva Finance Research Institute

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