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Clean energy only works when it is accessible and affordable.In Kakuma, a refugee-hosting setting in northern Kenya, access to clean energy is often not limited by technology, but by the upfront costs faced by households and small businesses. Flexible financing models such as pay-as-you-go solar and community savings groups are helping people spread costs over time, invest in clean energy solutions, and build small green enterprises.By strengthening access to finance, these approaches support livelihoods, improve resilience, and make clean energy solutions more likely to be owned, used, and sustained locally in displacement contexts.As part of this week’s focus on clean energy, this story shows how inclusive financing models can turn clean energy into opportunity, one household and one business at a time.