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- FairPlanet
By just looking at a picture sent to his iPhone of a large solar battery, Phillip December could tell why his client was having problems with his solar system. “The battery is fake. Get another one if you can,” he wrote.
- Africa Policy Research Institute
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The new industrial age, fueled by the manufacturing of several mineral-intensive transition technologies, offers potential opportunities for industrialization and structural transformation, particularly in mineral-rich developing regions such as Africa.
- ActionAid
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The world’s money is flowing in the wrong direction. The climate crisis is really about money: too much money is fuelling climate change, too little money is going to climate solutions, and extractive money flows are locking economies deeper into climate-destructive spirals that deepen inequality.
- Arinze Chijioke
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Augustine Joseph was fully aware of the dire power supply situation in Fish Town when he arrived to establish a healthcare centre in November 2021. Fish Town, located in the coastal Bayelsa State, is an oil-producing community that had endured decades without any government or privately-sourced electricity.
- Hamish Beath
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Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 80% of the global population without electricity access, is unlikely to reach the United Nations’ goal of access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
- Daniel Waldron, Chris Emmott, Yash Vardhan Gaddhyan and Ruth Wairimu
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Transformative technologies may start by making us more efficient, but it’s when they are embedded in new business models that they fundamentally change the way that we live and work. For instance, trains began as “faster horses” aiming to displace wagons, and ended up enabling modern industry.
- Michael Chishala
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Any one of us given a choice between cheap power available for only 3 hours every 2 days versus electricity that is 5 times more expensive but available 24/7 will take the expensive power any day.
- Benson Ireri, Victor T. Otieno, Dimitris Mentis, Douglas Ronoh, Anderson Ngowa
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Makueni County Referral Hospital is the biggest health facility in its area of rural Kenya, treating approximately 500 patients a day in a region where modern infrastructure can be hard to come by. But its operations are costly. The local government spends about Ksh. 24 million ($187,000) each year on the facility’s electricity bills alone.
- Startup|Energy
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Access to clean energy remains a considerable challenge and a top govement priority in Kenya. Digital innovations become essential for optimization, monitoring, regulation and financing.
Startup|Energy has called on innovators and spin-offs from Kenyan universities to take part in the Award for Digital Innovations in Clean Energy .
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