It's part of a mosaic of businesses, social enterprises and philanthropic schemes fuelling talk of an African "solar revolution".
But critics have accused the scheme of fuelling a property bubble centred on London, where house prices have risen by about 20% in the past year.
November 2013: Bank governor Mark Carney reins in the mortgage market in a bid to prevent five years of ultra-low interest rates and George Osborne's help-to-buy scheme from fuelling a housing bubble.
November 2013: Carney reins in the mortgage market in an attempt to prevent five years of ultra-low interest rates and Osborne's help-to-buy scheme from fuelling a housing bubble.
The governor of the Bank of England on Thursday reined in the mortgage market as he sought to prevent five years of ultra-low interest rates and George Osborne's Help to Buy scheme from fuelling a pre-election housing bubble.
Government initiatives to help first-time buyers such as the extension of help to buy and the new starter homes scheme are fuelling optimism at Barratt Developments, Britain's biggest housebuilder, and its smaller rival Galliford Try.
John Stewart, director of economic affairs at the Home Builders Federation said it was "absurd" to suggest that the Help to Buy scheme was fuelling house price increases.
At the press conference where the new policy was announced, members of the Bank's MPC were asked whether they were concerned by claims the government's Help to Buy scheme was fuelling another housing bubble.
In 1947 the class became a test-bed for a government-backed scheme regarding fuelling arrangements in anticipation of a coal shortage.
He told the jury it was essentially a front for a pyramid scheme fuelled by spread betting and gambling on football matches, horse racing and even guessing the winner of Big Brother.
