Team
Committed to our primary stakeholders, local citizens underserved by clean energy.
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CHAIM MOTZEN
Managing Partner and Co-founder
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RAFFI FREEMAN
Managing Partner and Co-founder
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SUZANNE LAMBERT
Project Developer
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GABRIELLE SAMAD
Project Developer
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EVAN RICE
Senior Advisor
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ERIC HITTINGER
Energy Storage Modeling Lead
PARTNERS
The overarching objective of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today.
The Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Africa) is a clean energy financing facility that provides catalytic financing to innovative clean energy projects, technologies and business models in 15 countries across Southern and East Africa. Since 2010, EEP Africa has invested close to EUR 50 million in 250 pioneering projects.
FMO is the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank. It is our mission to empower entrepreneurs to build a better world.
A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries. Our mission is to create jobs and to improve lives by investing in businesses that drive sustainable development.
Norton Rose provides the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. It has more than 3,700 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.
The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) is an innovative infrastructure project developer and investor which mobilises private investment in sustainable and inclusive infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa and south and south-east Asia. PIDG investments promote socio-economic development within a just transition to net zero emissions, combat poverty & contribute to the SDGs.
Power Africa brings together technical and legal experts, the private sector, and governments from around the world to work in partnership to increase the number of people with access to power. The initiative has a goal of 60 million new energy connections and 30,000 megawatts of new and cleaner power generation.
The Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) mobilises private sector and investment in small to medium-sized projects (typically up to 25MW) through development capital, gap financing, access to risk mitigation instruments and access to long term lending.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency helps companies create U.S. jobs through the export of U.S. goods and services for priority infrastructure projects in emerging economies. USTDA links U.S. businesses to export opportunities by funding project preparation and partnership building activities that develop sustainable infrastructure and foster economic growth in partner countries.
The power sector is fundamental to Africa’s success and is seeing significant change and innovation as it rises to support the continent’s growth, particularly in small-scale distributed energy solutions. FEI was created to provide flexible, sustainable, and efficient financing to support the expansion of this infrastructure.
SCAF has provided Izuba with a grant for scaling its early and late stage project development work
“Of all the projects that we have supported, this project moved the fastest, it moved the smoothest, and this was the only project currently among the 24 projects we supported that is actually producing power into the grid ”
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)