{"id":31549,"date":"2020-08-28T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatepolicyinitiative.org\/?post_type=cpi_publications&#038;p=31549"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:33:28","slug":"green-aggregation-tech-enterprise-gate","status":"publish","type":"cpi_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.climatepolicyinitiative.org\/pt-br\/publication\/green-aggregation-tech-enterprise-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Aggregation Tech Enterprise (GATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Africa faces the challenge of providing electricity to 600 million people. Most sub-Saharan Africans without power live in&nbsp;remote areas. Mini-grids, small-scale systems that can operate without being connected to a centralized grid, represent an opportunity to provide clean energy access without the challenges of standard grid electrification. According to the IEA, about 40% of all new electricity connections until 2030 could be delivered economically through mini-grids \u2013 requiring installation of 4000 \u2013 8000 mini-grids a year in 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, private investment in the mini-grid market is limited. Mini-grid customer demand is difficult to predict and rural customers often lack credit histories. This makes it difficult to assess the revenue-generating potential of a mini-grid project \u2013 and therefore its bankability. As a result of this revenue risk barrier, mini-grids are overwhelmingly financed with grants and equity and some limited concessional debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight\"><em>GATE aims to increase clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, through unlocking private investment for mini-grids. It guarantees a baseline level of revenues to address revenue risk, a key barrier to private sector finance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">INNOVATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Green Aggregation Tech Enterprise (GATE) addresses revenue risk, a key obstacle to private investment in and the subsequent scale-up of the mini-grid market. GATE guarantees mini-grids a baseline level of revenues. This baseline revenue guarantee ensures that mini-grids can meet debt obligations in the event of revenue shortfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GATE\u2019s market development support is non-distortive and promotes an efficient risk-reward structure. No other products in this market target the key barrier of revenue risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight\"><em>GATE has the potential to unlock private finance and enable the deployment of thousands of mini-grids to deliver energy access to millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IMPACT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GATE transforms mini-grid finances, enabling project debt leverage of 70% and equity returns of 20%. In GATE\u2019s pilot phase (2018 \u2013 2023), GATE will enable 60,000 electricity connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GATE targets an enormous market in its pilot markets Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia: by 2023, the market potential in these countries is:<br>27 million electricity connections for households and businesses, a US$ 5.7 billion market value, and 11.71 million tons CO2 abatement annually<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DESIGN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatefinancelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180510-GATE.02@4x-100-e1537790432847-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4264\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>GATE creates a guarantee business that effectively pools mini-grid revenue risk. With GATE, mini-grids pay a premium to gain a guaranteed minimum revenue stream:<br>\u2022 The mini-grid agrees to a periodic revenue threshold with GATE, over a fixed time.<br>\u2022 The mini-grid pays a regular premium to GATE for each period covered.<br>\u2022 In the event that revenue falls below the threshold, GATE pays out the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that mini-grids can meet their debt obligations in the event of revenue shortfalls. This can transform the financing of mini-grids: from donor grants to debt finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GATE provides its product to a diverse portfolio of mini-grids, across different locations and customer bases to pool the risks that face individual mini-grids. This enables GATE to price these risks more effectively than individual investors. In addition, data that GATE gathers from mini-grid customers enables more accurate risk pricing. 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