Case study

Asian Development Bank Solar Loan Guarantee Facility

How the International Climate Fund (ICF) is helping unlock India’s huge solar energy potential.

Indian woman holding a solar panel. © Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures / Department for International Development

Indian woman holding a solar panel. © Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures / Department for International Development

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contributed £6 million to this scheme, which aimed to offset part of the financing cost of using Asian Development Bank (ADB) guarantees on commercial loans for small-scale solar plants.

This project was discontinued in 2013. You can find a report by KPMG into the lessons learned from the project below.

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Published 13 December 2012
Last updated 18 November 2015 show all updates
  1. Lessons learned report published.

  2. First published.