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  • This $6 a month solar energy plan could power a million homes in Africa by 2017

    MALAWI, 2016/07/04 The biggest obstacle to powering off-grid homes is infrastructure. The problem, specifically in sparsely populated areas, is a lack of power lines. Without lines going to a remote power grid, a lot of communities lack the access they need to electricity. Entire villages can remain dark. But there are ways around that. A startup called Off-Grid Electric is looking to use cheap rooftop solar panels for energy in rural parts of Africa, instead of building expensive infrastructure.
  • South Africa’s push for renewables

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/06/18 Already the continent’s major producer of renewable energy, South Africa is moving to further reduce its reliance on hydrocarbons by expanding private sector investments in solar and wind projects, and introducing biofuels. Under the Renewable Energy Power Producer’s Programme launched in 2011, the contribution of independent power producers (IPPs) to generation is expected to reach approximately 7 GW by mid-2016, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, minster of energy, said in a budget address in mid-May. A further 1.8 GW of new renewable projects are currently being evaluated, with a decision on tenders to be announced later this year. Private investments since 2011 by IPPs in renewable capacity have topped R194bn ($12.3bn), a figure set to expand through this year, the minister said during the same speech. Given the scope and scale of new projects coming on-line, South Africa appears to be on course to achieve its renewable target of 17.8 GW by 2030, the minister added.
  • Malawi's solar power revolution starts by bringing schoolchildren out of the dark

    MALAWI, 2016/03/11 Young Kennedy is astonished. His face lights up in the single room in the straw-thatched house. So does the book he is reading with his friend, Nellie. The two excited nine-year-olds from the village of Gumbi in western Malawi have just done what about 600 million others in sub-Saharan Africa have never been able to do – switch on an electric light in their homes to read a book in the dark. There is a murmur of approval from the small crowd of people craning their heads through the doorway to witness the arrival of solar electricity in the village. “[These] bulbs will change lives. Our days will be longer and nights shorter. We will be like others,” says one mother, Chikumbutso Chaima. “Children will do better at school. They have a future. We have not been forgotten.”
  • Noor solar project leads Morocco’s clean power drive

    MOROCCO, 2016/02/12 The southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate will any minute at this time be home to Africa’s major solar plant and the world’s biggest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility, with €6bn worth of solar projects currently in the works. The 500-MW Ouarzazate Solar Complex (OSC) – which will occupy an area roughly the size of the capital Rabat – will harness solar power using CSP technology. As opposed to traditional photovoltaic panels, CSP uses mirrors to focus sunlight and convert it into 400°C heat to create steam that will power an energy-generating turbine.
  • Renewables to lead Côte d’Ivoire’s power drive

    CôTE D'IVOIRE, 2015/12/26 Boosting electricity generation from a broader mix of sources has become a strategic priority for Côte d’Ivoire and is part of its drive to achieve emerging country status by 2020. The country is looking to double electricity production to 4000 MW over the next five years through a raft of projects, with renewables earmarked to play a leading role in new added capacity. The initiatives form part of broader plans, announced in late 2012, to invest $4bn in upgrading energy infrastructure to increase electricity output by 80% by 2018.
  • Building the region’s largest solar system

    TANZANIA, 2015/12/12 In 2003, nine-year-old George Mtemahanji left his home in Ifakara, a small rural town in Tanzania’s Kilombero District, to move to Italy where his mother had managed to fasten work. It was eight years before he was able to return to his birth town, and he was surprised to see it faced the same problems it had at the same time as he left. Key to this was the district’s energy challenges. A lack of reliable electricity had in a lot of ways pushed the brakes on development and prevented local industries from reaching their full potential. For Mtemahanji, Ifakara had not changed in eight years. “Some days you had electricity and the next day not. One day of energy, the day next – none. And blackouts, so a lot of blackouts,” he recalled.
  • Azanzi Kifwete demonstrate how they bake cakes using a wooden solar box

    KENYA, 2015/11/24 In this rural village in Kilifi County, on Kenya's east coast, a group of women run a thriving bakery. On a good day, they make dozens of large cakes and over 100 cupcakes. And they don't even have a kitchen oven. Instead, the members of the Imani Women Group bake their cakes using only a wooden box and the sun. They earn enough money to help support their families and send their children to school. Constructed out of timber, leather and foil, the box can bake cakes in about two hours without electricity or charcoal. It works by trapping the heat of the sun, essentially turning the box into a mobile oven. For the 22 members of the women's group - whose name "Imani" is the Swahili word for "faith" - the simple wooden box has become a source of empowerment and gain, securing livelihoods and transforming families.
  • Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF)

    ZAMBIA, 2015/10/28 THE Government in collaboration with the Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) has identified land for the installation of the Government sponsored solar milling plant in Kasama. The contractor has since moved on site to prepare the ground for the installation of the plant. Acting permanent secretary, Boniface Mbuzi said Government working hand in hand with ZCF, has finalised the land issue. "We have identified land near Lions Club where the facility will be installed," Mr Mbuzi said.
  • Solar-Powered Cars Spark South Africans' Interest in Clean Tech

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/10/10 Cape Town, South Africa — Teams from two South African universities have taken solar-powered cars to Australia to compete in an international rally and showcase their government's efforts to inspire green technology at home. The Hulamin and the Sirius X25, created by the University of KwaZulu-Natal and North-West University respectively, have by presently had success in a South African rally. As they prepare for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge on October 18-25, the cars' promoters say the vehicles have left innovation and a desire for clean energy in their wake, sparking interest in engineering, and particularly in electric vehicles. The two universities are part five that in 2012 each received 330,000 rand ($24,000 at today's exchange rate) from the South African government's Technology Innovation Agency to develop vehicles and compete in the Sasol Solar Challenge, an eight-day race from Pretoria to Cape Town held in 2014.
  • A Village School Struggling With Solar Energy to Ensure Good Education in Uganda

    UGANDA, 2015/08/01 It is a world trend presently with most developing nations focusing their plan on rural electrification in a bid for the rural communities to catch up in various developments just like their counterparts in urban areas. The emphasis on one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) to make rural villages smart in as far as provision of different energy source is concerned is being taken up by most governments and different development partners throughout the globe Uganda inclusive. A statement by Uganda's Rural Electrification Strategy and Plan (RESP) covering the period 2013 to 2022 emphasizes that rural electrification constitutes a critical part of the governments long range programme to eradicate rural poverty and to foster opportunities for rural Ugandans in each part of the national territory.