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Scatec Solar to Build First Large Scale Solar Plant in West Africa
A historic agreement to Build-Own-and Operate West Africa’s first utility-scale solar power plant has been signed by Norwegian company Scatec Solar and its partners, the Malian Ministry of Energy and Water and Electricité du Mali (EDM), the electricity utility of Mali. To be located near the ancient city of Segou in South-East Mali, 240 kms from Bamako, the 33 MW solar project is being developed in partnership with IFC InfraVentures and the local developer Africa Power 1.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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South Africa: Rural Maubane Receives Solar Powered Health Centre
The North West Department of Health together with Samsung Electronics South Africa have launched a Solar Powered Health Centre (SPHC), which officials says will improve access to specialised healthcare for Maubane residents.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Botswana’s Hearing Aid Pioneers Are Betting on Solar Power to Go Global
Six years after developing the prototype of a solar-powered hearing aid, Deaftronics, a Botswana-based company, is readying to take its technology global.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Portable Solar Power to the People
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, is commercialising its solar powered portable LED lamps with mobile phone charger, the Mobiya TS 120S, in order to offer innovative, reliable and affordable products to people living without access to electricity.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Tools Deliver Medical Diagnoses, Fast, Cheap and in the Field
Reliable electricity is a rare commodity in some parts of Guinea, which means some traditional medical equipment often is useless. So researchers there are using a new tool to identify Ebola cases: a portable diagnostic machine that fits in a suitcase and runs on a solar battery.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Light in the Darkness
Some mountainous parts of Mexico are so remote that the electricity grid fails to reach them, let alone the banking system. A five-year-old social enterprise, Iluméxico, hopes to change that. It provides more than 20,000 people with loans to buy low-cost solar panels and batteries, enabling them to switch lights on, watch television and charge mobile phones, sometimes for the first time.
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- Energy
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- Latin America
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How Rwanda’s Clinics Have Gone Off-Grid and Onto Renewable Energy
Rwanda is located in the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, it is making advances with off-grid renewable energy solutions for rural areas that could be a model for similar economies.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Technology Billionaire Bill Gates to Double Investment in Clean Energy Projects Over Five Years
Technology billionaire Bill Gates says he’ll plow $2 billion of his own money into breakthrough energy projects that reduce emissions and eschew fossil fuels. The planned investment doubles what Gates already has spent on early-stage energy companies geared to fight climate change, the Financial Times reported Thursday.