Solar for small-holder farmers made affordable through innovative co-design and financing – lessons learnt

A technological revolution in both the cost and performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has transformed the landscape of generating electricity directly from the sun in the last decade. Innovation combined with government incentives and policies led to massive investments which in turn fueled a virtuous cycle of declining PV costs with ever larger production volumes. The core electricity producing technology is scale neutral- a single solar module roughly the size of a typical door in a building, or a solar power plant with thousands of door-sized modules, all rely on the same solar cells.