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The widespread use of charcoal for cooking in African cities can cause devastating damage to forests up to 300 km away, scientist Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez found while working on energy and agriculture issues in West Africa.
So in 2015, he co-…
To enable customers meet their payment obligations for solar home systems, Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian organization and MTN Liberia have launched mobile money payment mechanism for such customers.
The PayGo solar Mobile Money Payment, which…
Kenya-based clean energy and energy efficiency leasing company Solarise has held a second closing of its Series A funding round to scale further across the continent.
Founded by Patrik Huber, Jan Albert Valk and Sakkie van Wijk, Solarise Africa is…
Africa’s largest wind farm, a €620 million energy masterpiece boosting 365 turbines in northern Kenya, will help the East African nation stay on track to reach its target of 100% green energy by 2030.
Known as the Lake Turkana Wind Power, the 40,…
Zimbabwe is set to receive 400MW in a relief electricity deal from South Africa’s Eskom on condition it pays US$890,000 to service its growing debt of about US$25 million owed to the neighbouring country’s power utility.
Information Minister Monica…
For over a year in Conakry, the Guinean capital, and in several other major towns and rural areas in the country, habits have changed. Like many of her compatriots, Arama Sire Camara, a fruit and vegetable seller in the province of Kindia (135 km…
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has more than doubled electricity tariffs for ordinary consumers with more than 200 percent effective immediately.
Presenting his 2019 Mid-Term Monetary Policy Review statement on Thursday, Ncube gave power utility,…
Kenya has improved its global ranking among the world’s largest geothermal powerhouses after it completed the testing of the first unit of the Olkaria V project.
The 82.7 megawatts from the project now push Kenya above Iceland to position eight in…
The Chamber of Independent Power Producers, Power Distribution Companies and Bulk Consumers, Ghana (CIPBiD) has indicated its readiness to meet government for renegotiation of all ‘take or pay’ power deals.
Elikplim K. Apetorgbor, Chief Executive…