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Press Release: Puma Energy Launches Solar Power Systems in Ghana
Puma Energy’s newly established Future Energies business launches 11 solar projects at its retail stations and a further three at Puma Energy’s terminals in Ghana. The solar power generation at 11 of the 14 sites is supported by battery storage.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Solar Giant, Baobab+ Raises $4.7 Million to Strengthen Access to Power in Côte D’Ivoire and Senegal
Baobab+, a solar home systems distributor in West Africa, has raised €4 million in financing for the expansion of its activities in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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10 Key Lessons for Solar Enterprises: Insights From SELCO’s 26 Years Doing Business in India
SELCO, a pioneering off-grid solar company based in India, just celebrated its 26th anniversary. Christine Eibs Singer at Sustainable Energy for All and Richenda Van Leeuwen at ANDE, both former board members at SELCO, share 10 lessons from the company's decades of experience in the sector, which may be helpful to other impact investors and social entrepreneurs working in off-grid energy.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Press Release: Global Day of Action: A Call for Leaders to Go #BeyondRecovery to a Zero Waste Future
Global Day of Action: A Call for Leaders to Go #BeyondRecovery to a Zero Waste Future
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Environment
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India’s Adani Green Energy to Buy 300 Megawatts of Operational Solar Projects
Continuing its aggressive growth, one of India’s leading renewable energy companies — Adani Green Energy — has plans to acquire two large-scale solar power projects.
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- Energy
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Solar Technologies Can Speed up Vaccine Rollout in Africa. Here’s How
There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$1.2 Million Innovation Fund Launched to Unearth Emerging Technologies in Africa
The African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFafrica.org) has today launched a US$1.2 million Innovation Fund to unlock the potential of renewable energy to create new business opportunities.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SolarAid Scheme to Help Bring Solar Power to All Super-Rural African Households by 2030
SolarAid, the international development charity, has today announced the launch of a new pilot project that will provide solar lighting to all homes in a single super-rural Malawi community, with a view to proving a model that could bring renewable energy to all super-rural households across the continent.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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