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Kenya’s Clean Energy Offers Surge Amid Oversupply Fears
Kenya is gradually boosting the contribution non-large hydro renewables make to its grid by adding more solar, wind and geothermal capacity
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Clean Power Finance ‘Falls’ in Emerging Markets
Overall, declining costs for solar and wind played a considerable factor in the fall in absolute dollar investment in emerging economies, the research found.
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Beyond the Bottom Line: How Changing the Supplier-Distributor Dynamic Creates Better Products for People Living in Poverty
A good relationship between suppliers and distributors is crucial when doing business in challenging markets. But in too many cases, these relationships are purely transactional, one-way and unresponsive, say Sahil Khanna at Greenlight Planet and Murli Padmanabhan at Pollinate Group. They explore how their organizations have avoided this pitfall in creating a true partnership that allows them to distribute solar products more effectively to their customers.
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China Plans Measures to Boost Revenues for Renewable Power Companies
Despite rapid expansion and a drastic fall in the cost of producing power, renewable firms are still struggling to produce power as cheaply as coal-fired plants.
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- Asia Pacific
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African Cleantech Deals Stand Over Regular VC Funding Like A Familiar Solar Tower
Africa has all the makings of the world’s cleanest economic revolution. By leveraging renewable energy sources to brighten an extensive stretch of urbanization, the continent’s sunshine is not entirely going to waste.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gusty Growth: Vietnam’s Remarkable Wind Energy Story
Vietnam is rising as Southeast Asia’s new wind hero, with power capacity soon to dwarf that of all other Asean nations and the world’s biggest offshore wind farm to be built off its windy coast, but challenges remain.
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Impact Greenwashing Are Stalling The Energy Transition
It sounds reasonable that market forces make fossil fuels our energy source of choice. The reality is quite different, however.
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Latin America and Caribbean on the Brink of Massive Solar Power Growth
Latin America and the Caribbean could grow their installed solar capacity by a factor of 40 by 2050, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows. Annual investmens exceeding seven billion would see the region's solar PV capacity rise from 7 gigawatts (GW) today, to more than 280 GW by mid-century. While solar energy remains the highest in Asia, North America and Europe, market growth is set to shift to other regions in the world.
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- Latin America
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- renewable energy, solar