Productive Use Financing Facility
The Productive Use Financing Facility makes appliances more affordable to consumers and businesses in emerging markets in Africa.
What is PUFF?
The Productive Use Financing Facility (PUFF) is an innovative program that provides grants, subsidies, and technical assistance to suppliers and distributors to lower appliance prices and reach more customers. This makes it easier for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and households to buy energy-efficient technologies, such as solar water pumps, mills, and refrigerators, at favorable prices. Learn more about this impactful program in our press release.
PUFF 2.0 Press Release
2025 CES4W Funding Window Resources
The application period for the 2025 CES4W Funding Window is now closed. Access resources like Terms & Conditions and Testing Guidance Overview here.
PUFF 2.0 ResourcesHow it Works
The facility operates across the off-grid, mini-grid, and grid-connected (utility) sectors. It strengthens the role of appliance suppliers and distributors by providing capacity-building grants, subsidies, and business support.
These productive-use appliances (PUAs), such as solar-powered refrigerators, solar water pumps, and solar milling machines are technologies that have a direct, transformative impact on local communities, small businesses, and people’s livelihoods. As these appliances are often powered by renewable energy, they have far lower running costs for consumers, and they reduce harm to the environment and the climate.
This program is supported by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). For more information, read the PUFF 2.0 press release, contact financing@clasp.ngo, and follow us on LinkedIn for regular updates on how the facility is benefiting people and our planet.
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