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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
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Solar Energy Entrepreneurs In India Are Finding Faster, Cleaner and Economical Route to Power
Access to power in India is not a given. Mera Gao Power (MGP), however, is able to offer customers two solar powered lamps and a mobile phone charger for less than a dollar per week, powered by renewable energy sources as opposed to kerosene.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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- renewable energy, solar
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Solar startup ARED empowers Rwandans with “business in a box”
Rwandan hardware-as-a-service company ARED is empowering local people with a “business in a box” solar kiosk platform that enables them to start their own businesses by charging phones and selling virtual top-ups.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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What Will It Take for the New Gates-Led Clean Energy Fund to Be a Breakthrough?
Last week, Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1 billion fund that will invest in clean energy innovation.
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- Investing, Technology
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- renewable energy
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East Africa’s ‘largest’ solar plant now in operation
What is claimed to be East Africa’s largest solar offering is now online in the form of the 10MW PV plant in Soroti, Uganda. Located on just over 13 hectares of land and comprised of 32,680 modules, the facility is also the country’s first grid-connected plant and will provide enough clean energy to power 40,000 homes.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Google Will Soon Deliver on 100% Renewables Promise
Sometime within the next 12 months, internet search and cloud services giant Google will be buying enough clean power on an ongoing basis to account for the electricity needs of both its 13 data centers (so far) and offices in more than 150 cities around the world.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Africa Finds Power Off the Grid
But recently those in areas without electricity are taking advantage of an alternative to traditional electric hookups that could help solve Africa’s power problem: off-grid solar home systems, which electrify houses with a battery-connected rooftop panel.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Cold Hub introduces solar-powered storage facility to empower Nigerian entrepreneurs
To ensure a greater part of the country’s farm yield does not get wasted due to challenges emanating from either erratic power supply or storage facilities reliant on power, Nigerian Cold Hub company has developed a solar-powered food storage design, Cold Hub, to empower small, medium and large scale farmers.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar