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Renewable energy in Africa

  • King Mohammed V:construction of the Noor solar complex

    MOROCCO, 2013/05/16 Chairman of the Moroccan Agency For Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury, made on the occasion a presentation highlighting the goals of this major project that confirms HM the King's will to optimize the use of Morocco's natural resources, preserve environment, promote sustainable economic and social development and fasten the next of coming generations. This is the prime plant of the kind in the world in terms of production capacity (160 MW). The plant, to cost 7 billion dirhams, will be operational in 28 months. It will help promote local industry, acquire high-level expertise in the field and guarantee an integrated development of the region and the production of clean and renewable electric energy, said Bakkoury.
  • Morocco's solar energy agency MASEN,

    MOROCCO, 2013/05/12 Morocco on Friday officially launched the construction of a 160-megawatt solar power plant near the desert city of Ouarzazate, the prime in a series of vast solar projects planned in the country; The major of its kind in the world, according to Mustapha Bakkoury, the chief of Morocco's solar energy agency MASEN, the thermo-solar plant will cost 7 billion dirhams (630 million euros) and is slated for completion in 2015, the official MAP news agency reported.
  • African sustainable energy hub to launch this month

    BOTSWANA, 2013/05/07 An African Hub on sustainable energy is set to be launched this month, to promote the use of sustainable energy across the continent.   This emerged next three high-level energy workshops staged in Gaborone, Botswana. African Energy Stakeholders were urged to double their efforts in making energy available, affordable and accessible to the bulk of the African People. The call was made by the Chief of NEPAD’s Energy Division, Professor Mosad Elmissiry, at the prime of the three crucial meetings in Gaborone.
  • Study supports renewable energy in Africa

    AFRICA, 2013/04/30 Increased use of renewable energy sources can transform African societies and their economies, a newly launched study revealed. The comprehensive study, conducted by the World Future Council and the Heinrich Boll Foundation with the support of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, shows that Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff policies (REFiT) are promising mechanisms to promote renewable energy development in Africa.
  • Biggest African solar plant, in Mauritania

    MAURITANIA, 2013/04/20 Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz inaugurated what is Africa's biggest solar plant on Friday in the capital, Nouakchott. The 15-megawatt plant was built by renewable energy company Abu Dhabi Next Energy Company (Masdar) with $32 million in financing from the United Arab Emirates.
  • How To Make Solar Technology More Efficient

    EUROPE, 2013/04/15  How fitting for a German-born innovator and inventor to prove Albert Einstein’s opinion, true. Nothing, as a source of energy matches the sun. It out-powers anything that human ability, through technology could ever invent. Only a minuscule fraction of the sun’s power output reaches earth, but that which does, provides 10,000 times as much as all the commercial energy that humans use on the planet. Solar energy from the sun, accounts for more than the entire annual global supply of fossil produced energy.
  • Libyan Minister for Electricity and Renewable Energy Ali Mohamed Mihirig

    LIBYA, 2013/04/12 Libya holds great potential for the export of solar and wind energy, said Libyan Minister for Electricity and Renewable Energy Ali Mohamed Mihirig on Thursday in Brussels. He was speaking as part of a European Parliament conference on energy alongside the Union for the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Mirihig said that the Libyan desert held enough renewable energy potential to meet amount of Europe's energy requirements and stressed the country's desire to cooperate with other nations.
  • Moroccan energy ministry's director-general for renewable energy, Abderrahim El Hafidi,

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/04/12 Morocco has requested better support from European nations to begin exporting its renewable energy to the EU. The Moroccan energy ministry's director-general for renewable energy, Abderrahim El Hafidi, stressed this in a European Parliament conference Thursday on energy.
  • South African renewable energy project financing deal

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/04/10 Standard Bank Group and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have inked a R20 billion (US$2.2 billion) transaction to fund renewable energy projects in South Africa. The finance transaction was signed by ICBC’s chairman Jiang Jianqing and Standard Bank Group’s joint chief executive Ben Kruger.
  • South Africa is making a number of steps towards introducing electric vehicles.

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/04/08 South Africa is making a number of steps towards introducing electric vehicles. The potential benefits are numerous but so are the challenges. It seems that South Africa's automobiles may be on the road to going electric.