As a matter of fact, in addition to constituting a tool for climate mitigation, renewable energy technologies (RETs) can also be combined with rural electrification strategies to offer leverage for trade and investment growth, innovation, and employment creation. Fully seizing this momentum depends on government’s ability to identify policy synergies between agriculture, energy, climate mitigation and adaptation, rural development, innovation and investment policies, to name but the most important. This requires strong institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks as well as financial support, which are often lacking in many developing countries. A second is policy coordination and coherence.