{"id":73,"date":"2013-07-19T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-05-06T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:38:43","slug":"us-africa-clean-energy-finance-initiative-acef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Received: Project Development Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6em;\">NextGen Solar is one of the first private sector companies to be awarded project development financing under the <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">US Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF)<\/span><\/strong> initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/usdos-logo-seal.png\" alt=\"usdos-logo-seal\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" \/>ACEF is a collaborative financing mechanism announced at the United Nations\u2019 Rio+20 conference and developed by the State Department, OPIC and USTDA. Financed by $20 million in State Department funding, ACEF aims to catalyze private-sector clean energy deals. The Initiative aims to align USTDA\u2019s project planning expertise and OPIC\u2019s financing and risk mitigation tools in new ways, to support private sector investment and increase support for U.S. businesses and exporters in sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s clean energy sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/20092013clinton\/rm\/2012\/06\/193912.htm\">http:\/\/www.state.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NextGen Solar is one of the first private sector companies to be awarded project development financing under the US Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF) initiative. ACEF is a collaborative financing mechanism announced at the United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nextgensolar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}