The Partnership on Women'™s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER)

This is a solicitation for applications for projects to expand the and deepen the the Partnership on Womens Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER). wPOWER seeks to empower women clean energy entrepreneurs and expand clean energy access for poor and rural communities. Working at the grassroots level in East Africa, Nigeria, and India, wPOWER promotes entrepreneurship of small-scale clean technologies such as solar products and clean cookstoves to drive green growth and directly integrate women into the energy access value chain. This NOFO will focus on expanding activities under these wPOWER program goals by empowering and supporting women clean energy entrepreneurs, conducting research to advance women clean energy entrepreneurship, addressing financial barriers, and growing the wPOWER Partnership.