Insights/Honest momentum

Why climate financing for SMEs still breaks in South Asia

Unit economics, offtake risk, and how DER installers are reframing ROI.

Omar Siddiqui · 7 min · July 13, 2026

If the story stops at ‘green,’ rural installers keep paying the emotional tax of explaining cashflow twice.

Hope and frustration share a desk here: the hardware works, the spreadsheets still don’t.