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SEforALL Partners With Clean Energy Developers To Deploy Solar And Battery Storage Systems Across Nigeria
These partnerships will facilitate the deployment of high-capacity solar and battery storage systems to businesses and institutions across the country.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BURN Receives $12 Million Investment From Key Carbon to Expand Cleaning Cooking in Africa
This new investment will go towards the distribution of electric cookstoves in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia and biomass stoves in Nigeria, DRC, Tanzania, and Mozambique over the next two years.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nine Business Models for Productive Use of Electricity in Africa: A Framework for Generating Profit and Impact in Off-Grid Energy
Improving energy access in rural Africa is crucial for poverty reduction, but grid electricity is often inaccessible or unaffordable — and off-grid alternatives present similar challenges. Olowo Aminu, Bodunde Akinola, Nneka Chime and Mosorire Aiyeyemi at CrossBoundary argue that Productive Use of Electricity (PUE) has the potential to solve these issues, boosting household income and economic growth, while increasing profitability for energy providers. They share a framework CrossBoundary has developed to help off-grid companies and other stakeholders plan for effective PUE implementation.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Technology
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Press Release: Sarah Malm Announced as New Executive Director of GOGLA, the Global Association for the Off-Grid Solar Energy Industry
GOGLA represents companies, investors, and development actors working to build sustainable markets for off-grid solar technologies.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Top Findings from Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024
60 Decibels, a leading social impact measurement company, announces the publication of Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024, the world’s most comprehensive impact assessment of the off-grid sector to date.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Hydro-Solar Hybrid Starts Commercial Operations in Thailand
The Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has confirmed that a 24 MW floating hydro-solar hybrid project has commenced commercial operations in northeastern Thailand.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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TDB Group Grants $2 Million to MPower Ventures Zambia to Enhance Access to Modern and Affordable Energy Solutions in Zambia
MPower Zambia plans to expand its range of plug-and-play household solar devices and market-driven productive assets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Energy Poverty is Not Gender Blind: How Companies, Funders and Policymakers Can Empower Female Energy Consumers Across Africa
While both men and women in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity and clean energy technologies, women pay a bigger price for this lack of access in nearly every imaginable way. Mutale Ngaba, Katie Brauer, Nathalie Gogue-Ebo and Duda Slawek at Open Capital argue that this crucial aspect of the energy access conversation is often overlooked. They explore the gender inequities in energy poverty, and share learnings from Open Capital's work that can guide the efforts of energy companies, funders and policymakers to put women’s needs at the center of energy access efforts in the region.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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