WINNERS OF THE LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN EDITION

The SolarX Startup Challenge, launched by ISA and Invest India at COP27 in November 2022, promotes solar entrepreneurship in ISA Member Countries. The first edition was held in Africa, with over 180 applicants from 28 countries, and 20 winning startups were selected. These winners were from 10 different African countries, and 7 of them were women-led. The first Acceleration Programme Workshop for the winning start-ups was organised in Kigali, Rwanda.

SolarX Startup Challenge aims to crowdsource implementable, cost-effective, scalable and innovative solutions to some of the persistent challenges faced by the solar energy sector. The first edition of the challenge was focused on the African region, aiming to promote innovation and discover local solutions, with the overarching objective of capacity-building of stakeholders across the globe, and the next edition of the challenge will be focused on the Asia-Pacific (APAC) Region, aiming at building the solar energy sector in the region along with promoting startup and innovation culture in the local ecosystems.