Rockefeller Fund backs Mainstream Renewable Power's $177m African project push

Madeleine Cuff
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Foundation created with proceeds from fossil fuel pioneer Standard Oil joins multi-million dollar clean energy investment deal

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), the family foundation created from the proceeds of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, has joined a group of investors backing a wind and solar investment deal in Africa...

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