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An African Development Bank (AfDB) report covering critical takeaways from the ARE Energy Access Investment Forum 2023 says that challenges in financing, policy, technology, and skills enhancement must be overcome to support the deployment of distributed renewable energy minigrids across Africa.
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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.
- Catherine Thomas & Shloka Kumar
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Three reasons why the development community should lead the shift away from using deficit-focused language and model how we can do better
- Kumbirai Makanza
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A few months back, my Linkedin feed was inundated with posts celebrating the remarkable growth of South Africa’s Solar Photovoltaic (PV) sector signalled by a significant surge in solar panel imports.
- Startup|Energy
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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.
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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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In many countries, women can’t own the assets they need as collateral for a loan, with just 14 countries giving women the same economic rights as men, according to the foundation. Lack of access to capital is a particular obstacle in countries facing very high inflation, such as Nigeria, where inflation is 18.8%, the report notes.
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- Afrik21
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Sustainable sourcing, eco-design, industrial and territorial ecology, the functionality economy, responsible consumption, extended useful life and waste recycling. These seven points sum up the circular economy, a practice that aims to extend the life cycle of products in order to reduce the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste.
- Darlain Edeme, Martin Kueppers, Stephen J. Lee, Daniel Wetzel
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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.
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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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