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Is There A Dark Side To Solar-Powered Irrigation Pumps?

News
12/04/2024
Category: Technology + Products

While solar irrigation has potential for reducing poverty and improving livelihoods and incomes in low and middle income countries (global south), greenhouse gas emissions reductions are not likely to meet expectations, and the groundwater use will increase....

Joint venture to invest in waste-to-energy in Africa

News
12/04/2024
Category: Companies + Organisations

Astra Energy and Powertron Global have announced the launch of a joint venture for waste-to-energy investments in Africa. Astra already has a portfolio of projects, notably in the autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar in Tanzania and in Lesotho....

Solar Power in Uganda: Cutting Milk Loss, Lowering Energy Costs and Increasing Farmers’ Income

Article
12/04/2024
Category: Livelihood + Living

The dairy sector currently represents 6.5 percent of the country's agricultural gross domestic product and dairy production is reported by the Dairy Development Authority of Uganda (DDA) to be a major activity in the cattle corridor, a stretch of rangeland covering more than a third of the country....

ENGIE Energy Access Lights Up Rural Population of Benin with Inauguration of First Mini-Grid in Dohouè

Press Release
11/04/2024
Category: Companies + Organisations

SunCulture Raises Oversubscribed $27.5m Series B Funding

Press Release
10/04/2024
Category: Companies + Organisations

Nine Business Models for Productive Use of Electricity in Africa: A Framework for Generating Profit and Impact in Off-Grid Energy

Article
10/04/2024
Category: Business, Livelihood + Living

In rural fishing communities in Nigeria, lack of access to grid electricity forces fishers to rely on traditional methods of storage for their catch, like sun-drying, salting and smoking. ...

Vehicle-integrated photovoltaic system for medical support

News
09/04/2024
Category: Technology + Products

South Africa-based S Mile Solutions is developing vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) mobile systems built onto commercially available pickup trucks with mobile clinics as its first target market. The system is completely removable and can be adapted to fit on various pickup truck makes....

The Potential Of Solar & Mesh-Grids For Last-Mile Electrification

News
06/04/2024
Category: Technology + Products

Essentially, a mesh-grid is a connection of individual clean energy installations which are able to function collaboratively as a unit to provide reliable clean energy. By combining the energy potential of mini-grids with the ease of use and low cost of solar home systems (SHS), mesh-grids are well-suited for many communities....

Africa’s electricity access planners turn to geospatial mapping

Article
06/04/2024
Category: General Market News, Technology + Products

Around 600 million people in Africa still lack access to electricity. Despite recent progress, electrification efforts face new headwinds since the Covid-19 pandemic, with a growing debt crisis, poor utility financial health, and increased affordability challenges....

Over one-third African great apes endangered by mining for clean energy

News
05/04/2024
Category: General Market News, Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products

According to a statement by the scientists, the study aimed to evaluate the threat of mining to the ape population in Africa which makes up over one-third of the entire population with 180,000 gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees. These animals are now at risk of endangerment....

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