IsraelDev Member of the Month Chaim Motzen, Managing Director of Energiya Global, recently secured $23.7M in financing to build an 8.5 MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Rwanda. The project, developed from concept stage to financial close by Chaim, is East Africa’s first utility-scale solar field and will increase Rwanda’s power generation capacity by approximately 8%. Construction of the field, located at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, has already begun. Commercial operation is expected summer of 2014.