A solar home system project in Angola is set to provide electricity to at least 350,000 people, the majority of whom live in rural areas.The country's Ministry of Energy and Water recently signed a contract...

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In 2020, Mali adopted the African Development Bank's Desert to Power National Roadmap.The roadmap quantifies its country-level targets, identifies priority actions required to achieve the targets and singles out an initial set of priority activities.The...

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The DREAM (Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities) programme has received new funding for its deployment in Ethiopia. The sum of $8 million was recently approved by the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank...

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In a bid to foster data-driven decision-making in the energy sector, the EnAccess Foundation and the World Resources Institute (WRI) have championed the inaugural open-source in energy access initiative.The first ever Open Source in...

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Researchers at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in the Netherlands have investigated for the first time how to combine hydrogen production and battery storage with rooftop PV power or small wind turbines in off-grid...

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While the electricity sector is attracting more and more funding, clean cooking remains the poor relation of the energy transition in Africa. The sector does not seem to be attracting any major financial backers....

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Like many African countries, Sierra Leone faces significant challenges in providing reliable electricity to its citizens.A lack of access to power not only hampers economic development but also affects crucial sectors such as healthcare and education.Traditional...

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Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company (UECCC) is engaging energy service companies operating within the solar space on a results-based financing programme under the Electricity Access Scale-up Project.The results- based financing programme is one of...

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Despite these investments in solar energy for electrification, the challenge remains immense for Nigeria. According to the World Bank, 85 million Nigerians still had no access to electricity in 2021. This situation concerns 66%...

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Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have announced an innovative partnership focused on bringing efficient clean cooking solutions to schools in Africa, helping them shift away from polluting and harmful cooking methods currently...

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