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04/10/2023
Elico Foundation

Majority of small-scale fishers in Tanzania have been facing critical challenges in storing their catches as they conduct their activities in areas with no grid electricity to power their refrigerators.

Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism

03/10/2023
Samwel Moses Ntapanta
Article

This essay delves into why society gauges progress based on access to artificial light and explores the fascination with light. Additionally, it examines the downside of renewable technologies, particularly solar-powered light.

Bootcamp for rural Solar SME

27/09/2023
Sendea Academy / Startup|Energy
Article

In Uganda, many solar installations in rural areas are carried out by freelancers. These usually have little knowledge of solar technology and are therefore unable to provide customers with professional information.

The dark side of solar: how off-grid products are creating waste in Africa

22/09/2023
Kay Harrison
Article

The burgeoning solar sector has a responsibility to consider the afterlives of its products, says an expert from UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture.

Electricity is key to addressing food security

20/09/2023
Francois Baird
Article

There is an exam question that parliamentarians all over the world must answer: What are you doing to ensure that local energy resources in the developing world enable the population to access energy for creating jobs and food security so that instability is avoided?

All-women factory makes solar panels

13/09/2023
Fouzia Van Der Fort
Article

Grandmothers, mothers and daughters are proud to be assembling solar panels and being pioneers in threading cells together, which convert energy from the sun into electricity.

The Energy Loom: Crafting Africa’s Green Transition with Precision

11/09/2023
Louis Strydom, Wärtsilä
Article

The call for a green revolution is no longer a distant echo; it’s the resounding demand of the present. Much like an artisan weaver poised before a complex loom, the world faces the task of crafting a grand tapestry of sustainability.

Best practices to overcome financing barriers for access

08/09/2023
IEA
Article

A range of real and perceived risks affecting projects in Africa, as well as higher borrowing costs following the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, mean there is a limited pool of affordable capital that energy developers in Africa can tap.

Unlocking Africa’s population potential

01/09/2023
OMFIF
Article

Africa could turn its growing population into an economic powerhouse, but it requires huge infrastructure investment, writes Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank Group.