Tom Roberts spent about a decade working across solar, wind, storage, biogas, and district heating projects before moving into investing, and he studied geology before getting his MBA, giving him an unusually technical and hands-on background for the field. At CrossBoundary, he focuses on solving the practical financing and legal challenges of building distributed energy projects across Africa, combining developer experience from the UK and US with investment leadership in African markets.
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CrossBoundary finances, owns, and runs clean power projects itself instead of just investing in companies, using project-finance and long-term contracts—including a first-of-its-kind solar-and-battery baseload plant for mining in the DRC—to replace diesel with fixed-price power for miners over 15-20 years, which can cut their energy costs by up to 50%. It has also built credibility by licensing solar power agreements early in frontier markets like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sierra Leone, and by bringing this same approach to blue-chip industrial clients such as Unilever, Diageo, Rio Tinto, Heineken, and AB InBev.
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