TUNIS, Tunisia, August 26, 2012/ – The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a joint initiative of the Danish government and the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org), approved on August 17 its first grant of USD 825,000 to finance the concept phase of the Green Tech [...]
Johannesburg, South Africa: August 12012–Leading experts and investors in Bioenergy, as well as public and private sector representatives have been meeting in Johannesburg to explore how the Bioenergy industry can use more of Africa’s own national resources to deliver improved energy and food security. The two-day New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) Bioenergy Symposium, which [...]
Installations up but manufacturer overcapacity drives down margins; Sector’s maturation recalls early days of auto industry; Huge gains for solar and investment surge in US drive global growth in 2011 Nairobi, 11 June 2012 – Solar generation surged past wind power to become the renewable energy technology of choice for global investors in 2011. Solar [...]
By Yemisi Akinbobola One would think that being a citizen of a country with the second-largest oil reserves inAfricacame with some perks. Not so inNigeriawhere scores of people are up in arms after being stripped of a petrol subsidy in effect since 1973. The price of gas at the pumps more than doubled, sparking massive [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 14, 2012/ – Company underlines commitment to environment by reducing number of telecom sites running 24×7 on diesel by over 50%; Plans to completely eradicate constant use of diesel across all its sites by 2013. ? 60% of company’s telecom sites now use the innovative Hybrid Battery Bank model that reduces daily [...]
Tapping geothermal power in Kenya’s Rift Valley By Björk Hakansson There is clean energy in the ground in Kenya — a lot of it — and Kenya has already moved to start tapping the Rift Valley’s vast steam reserves. The government hopes to generate about 27 per cent of the country’s electrical power from geothermal [...]
Turbines generate hope for clean energy suffering By Liane Greeff Three blades — each the length of a tennis court — revolve atop a wind energy tower reaching 50 metres into the sky, equal in height to a 17-storey building. There are four such turbines whirling in the hot, dry and windy landscape near the [...]