{"id":3613,"date":"2018-03-05T06:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2018-03-05T06:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:37:30","slug":"uae-based-solar-energy-startup-pawame-raises-over-usd2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/uae-based-solar-energy-startup-pawame-raises-over-usd2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE-Based Solar Energy Startup Pawame Raises Over USD2 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pawame, a UAEbased off-grid solar start-up,has announced that it has successfully raised USD 2million in funding through Gulf-based investorsfor its operations in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Pawame aims to electrify 150 million households in sub-Saharan Africa that do not have access to grid power. The company provides reliable, cost-effective pay-as-you-go solar home systemsto remote areas of Africa on a micro-finance basis, making it affordable for everyone. Itsinvestors are primarily GCC based, with its largest shareholder beingsenior executives from the largest power utility companies of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3614\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/B-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/B-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/B-768x622.png 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/B-1024x829.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/B.png 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawame, a UAEbased off-grid solar start-up,has announced that it has successfully raised USD 2million in funding through Gulf-based investorsfor its operations in Africa. Pawame aims to electrify 150 million households in sub-Saharan Africa that do not have access to grid power. The company provides reliable, cost-effective pay-as-you-go solar home systemsto remote areas of Africa on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}