{"id":7925,"date":"2019-08-28T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/28\/mitsubishi-invests-in-uk-company-to-bring-off-grid-solar-to-asia"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:00:24","slug":"mitsubishi-invests-in-uk-company-to-bring-off-grid-solar-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7925","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi invests in UK company to bring off-grid solar to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese conglomerate backs solar utility BBOXX to expand service in south Asia and Africa<\/p>\n<p>A British energy firm lighting up homes in Africa with pay-as-you-go solar power has secured \u00a340m to extend its reach to Asia with the help of Japan\u2019s Mitsubishi.<\/p>\n<p>The conglomerate has taken a stake in off-grid solar company BBOXX through the start-up\u2019s latest funding round, which will power the Africa-focused company deeper into Asia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/28\/mitsubishi-invests-in-uk-company-to-bring-off-grid-solar-to-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese conglomerate backs solar utility BBOXX to expand service in south Asia and AfricaA British energy firm lighting up homes in Africa with pay-as-you-go solar power has secured \u00a340m to extend its reach to Asia with the help of Japan\u2019s Mitsubishi&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,6,493,657,65,659,655,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-business","category-energy","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}