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This self-taught innovator in Nigeria upcycles e-waste into power banks
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  • Category: Technology + Products
  • A few years ago, Zang Luka Bot saw an opportunity to transform electronic waste, diverting it from landfills and giving it a new life as power banks and solar lanterns. He became a self-taught scholar, devouring textbooks, and online videos, and conducting his experiments, like the time he boiled kerosene to witness the reaction (not recommended!)....
GET.invest and Stiftung Solarenergie continue cooperation to promote African startups
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  • Category: Business, General Market News
  • Stiftung Solarenergie is excited to announce that the cooperation with GET.invest to promote African energy startups will be continued. Both organizations have already been supporting African energy startups since 2021 as part of the Startup|Energy initiative. This cooperation will now be extended....
Calvert International acquires German Africa-focused renewables biz
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  • Category: Companies + Organisations
  • German investment holding company Calvert International AG (CIAG) said on Monday that it has acquired a 100% stake in compatriot Emerging Energy Corporation AG (EEC), an investor focused on the African renewables market....
Kenyan Volcano Turns on Lights in Rural Homes with Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Mining Support
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  • Category: Technology + Products, Companies + Organisations
  • Seeking the cheapest sources of power, miners often face challenges due to fluctuating cryptocurrency prices. The recent surge in Bitcoin’s value has renewed interest in mining operations, making it more profitable to continue supporting the network. Gridless aims to bridge the gap between power generation and capacity in Africa. ...
When finance is about more than money: Spending smarter for climate
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  • Category: Finance
  • There is no one size fits all on climate policy: each country and context will play a significant role in making sure that priority needs are met, the right resources acquired, and implications well understood. But three “building block” principles can underpin these efforts and strengthen the complementary climate policy/climate finanance nexus:...
12 Clean Energy Innovations at Bootcamp in Nairobi
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  • Category: Business, General Market News, Technology + Products
  • You might think that there is hardly anything less exciting than innovative products and business ideas that come from a university context: Too much theory, too little practical relevance. The 12 participants of the Clean Energy Bootcamp of Startup|Energy from April 10 to 15, 2024 in Nairobi proved the opposite....
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
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  • Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power. Due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed....

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