- Job Title
- Senior Climate Advisory Specialist - Climate Finance
- Company
- responsAbility Investments AG
Mr. Angel Verástegui Gubler is a Senior Climate Advisor at responsAbility Investments AG. He develops green lending strategies with financial institutions across Latin America, validating their climate impact. With over 15 years in global clean energy initiatives, he has promoted energy access technologies with the public sector, assessed carbon emissions of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects from the private sector, and trained financial institutions on ESG and decarbonization.
May 07, 2025Off-Grid: Rural Electrification Based on Solar Systems: Lessons Learned
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Off-Grid: Rural Electrification Based on Solar Systems - Lessons Learned
Off-grid solar systems are often the least expensive option for rural electrification. Solar home systems can power individual households, while mini-grids can supply entire villages. Each comes with its own advantages, disadvantages, and challenges. The aim of this session is to explore challenges as well as success stories. It takes well-functioning components such as battery systems, charge management and inverters to make projects successful. Proper system sizing, maintenance and repair management, as well as a robust financial concept are also necessary. If one of these elements is missing, the electrification will not be sustainable. This session will focus on the aspects mentioned above. The speakers will present successful and unsuccessful approaches and discuss what can be learned from them.