{"id":186302,"date":"2024-12-11T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-cec-issues-97m-green-bond-for-solar-expansion-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:16:45","slug":"zambia-cec-issues-97m-green-bond-for-solar-expansion-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-cec-issues-97m-green-bond-for-solar-expansion-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Cec Issues $97m Green Bond for Solar Expansion in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Renewables, a subsidiary of Zambia&#8217;s CEC, has raised $97 million through its second green bond issuance.<\/li>\n<li>This follows the $53 million first tranche in 2023, which financed two solar plants producing 94 MW.<\/li>\n<li>The proceeds will fund the second phase of the Itimpi Solar PV Plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Renewables, a subsidiary of Zambia&#8217;s CEC, has raised $97 million through its second green bond issuance. This follows the $53 million first tranche in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100697.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Renewables, a subsidiary of Zambia&#8217;s CEC, has raised $97 million through its second green bond issuance. This follows the $53 million first tranche in 2023, which financed two solar plants producing 94 MW. The proceeds will fund the second phase of the Itimpi Solar PV Plant. Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Renewables, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[50153,258,256,10542,13859,5779,12626,8008,257,4631,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-186302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-97m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bond","tag-cec","tag-expansion","tag-green","tag-issues","tag-news","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}