The Clean Energy Solutions Center assists governments and practitioners with identifying appropriate finance mechanisms and designing and implementing policies to reduce risk and encourage private sector investment, helping to achieve the transition to clean energy at the speed and scale necessary to meet local development needs and address global challenges.
Guides and Good Practices
A Policy Overview
Governments around the world have implemented financial incentives to support scaled-up deployment of clean energy technologies and practices. As of 2015, at least 48 countries have adopted financial incentives to support such deployment. Learn more.
Good Practices and Case Studies
Our guides to finance instruments—designed by clean energy finance experts—direct you to information on innovative finance instruments that you can mobilize private sector investment in clean energy in your country or region. The guides cover:
- Clean energy financing instruments and incentives: bonds, net metering and net billing, feed-in tariffs, and tax measures
- Methods for managing commercial risks in energy markets: asset-backed securities, yieldcos, insurance and other risk mitigation instruments)
- Policies to support competitive markets: tenders and auctions, tradable renewable energy certificates
- Approaches to engaging banks and venture capital funds, including through public-private collaboration on concessional loan and loan guarantee programs.
Clean Energy Finance News
10 October 2019
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance has announced the endorsement and launch of six innovative financial instruments for climate-related projects in developing countries.
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Ask a Finance Expert
Our clean energy finance experts are available to provide assistance and in-depth answers to your questions. Ask your question here, and we will contact you within two business days.
Attend Training Webinars
We have offered dozens of finance webinars. For example, panelists in the webinar above provided an overview of international corporate renewable energy commitments and tracking systems, such as renewable energy certificates (RECs).
Search our Resource Library
Our resource library includes hundreds of published clean energy finance resources, which you can either search by keyword or browse by topic.