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UN Foundation Kicks Off Project to Power Primary Health Facilities in Ghana and Uganda
The UN Foundation recently formalized its cooperation with the Governments of Ghana and Uganda in supporting a new project in the energy, health and gender nexus. The project, which aims to power a total of 62 un-electrified or under-electrified primary care health facilities across both countries, adding an estimated 240 kWp of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity to the health sector, is made possible by the support of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under its ‘Sustainable Energy for Women and Girls’ programme.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India aims to become 100% e-vehicle nation by 2030: Piyush Goyal
The government is working on a scheme to provide electric cars on zero down payment for which people can pay out of their savings on expensive fossil fuels, for becoming 100 per cent electric vehicle nation by 2030. "India can become the first country of its size which will run 100 per cent of electric vehicles. We are trying to make this programme self financing.
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- Energy, Environment
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- South Asia
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- renewable energy
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Competition Heats Up in Kenya’s Off-Grid, Mobile Pay-Go Solar Market
Home to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Kenya is a hive of activity and a magnet for sustainable development-minded off-grid solar and energy storage startups. Having raised $40 million of capital over the course of the last four months of 2016, d.light announced that an average 800 Kenyan households a day are signing up for its D30 Pay-Go solar home system.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Solar provider and telco team up to offer affordable smartphone in Rwanda
Mobisol, a German provider of smart high quality solar solutions, and MTN, Rwanda’s leading mobile telecommunications company, have joined hands to offer customers a high performance Tecno smart phone to be purchased on an attractive and affordable instalment payment scheme.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Europe Pledges €300 Million For 19 African Renewable Energy Projects
The European Commission has pledged €300 million in an effort to leverage further investments amounting to €4.8 billion for the development of 19 new renewable energy projects in Africa, as part of its role in the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Still Helping Nonprofits Finance Solar Power Systems, But With A Simpler Funding Model
When readers last encountered CollectiveSun three years ago, the San Diego-based social enterprise had recently launched. Its mission: to help small nonprofits finance solar projects. Since that time, the goal hasn’t changed, but the financing model has.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- social enterprise, solar
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In race to clean energy, emerging nations seize bigger role – World Bank
LONDON, Feb 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A range of developing countries have emerged as leaders in a global race to switch to sustainable energy by 2030, by boosting their policies to help improve people's access to reliable, affordable and clean power, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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East Africa’s clean energy boom
Africa is very much in the firing line when it comes to climate change so the recently adopted Paris Agreement – where developed and developing countries alike are required to limit their carbon emissions to keep the global temperature increase to below two degrees celsius – is positive news, although the devil is still in the detail.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar