Ghanaian businesses can now go solar without upfront capital, CIPA Holdings says

It was against this backdrop that, in a presentation titled “Unlocking Local Capital for C&I Solar,” the CFO of CIPA Holdings Group explained that the company is already financing solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects for C&I clients in Ghana using local currency, structured through Solar as a Service arrangements.

Ghanaian factories, manufacturers, shopping centers, and other commercial and industrial energy users can adopt solar power without committing capital of their own upfront, according to CIPA Holdings Group, which used this year's Energy Sustainability Leadership Conference (ESLC) in Accra to set out how its solar financing model works, and its plans to fund and scale it further.

CIPA's response, the CFO said, has been to pool multiple C&I solar assets into a single investable portfolio, backed by independent governance and catalytic first-loss capital, so that local banks, private credit funds, and pension funds can lend against a governed platform rather than a single project.