The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission yesterday relaunched the Regional Off-grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP).The focus of the project, according to the Minister of Power Engr Abubakar Aliyu, is to increase...

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Newly released figures from the Global Solar Atlas for The World Bank shows that the future is bright for Africa’s solar energy output. The figures, analysed by Statista, reveal the average potential of solar energy...

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Costs for renewables continued to fall in 2021 as supply chain challenges and rising commodity prices have yet to show their full impact on project costs. The cost of electricity from onshore wind fell by...

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They also show that solar public lighting is easy to install and doesn’t require any civil engineering work, because it’s completely off-grid. It is ideal for remote, hard-to-reach locations, as well as flood-prone areas. Rwanda...

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Dire Dawa Administration City seeks to procure solar street lights

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The City of Kigali in Rwanda is on the second phase of trials to test the viability of solar energy powered public lights. Merard Mpabwanamaguru, the Vice Mayor of the City of Kigali in charge...

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The Government of Zambia launched an Action Plan charting the way forward in providing reliable and affordable electricity to unserved health centers using solar to improve the quality of services offered to poor and vulnerable communities.Access...

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The Utilities 2.0 Twaake pilot, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and coordinated by Power for All, is the first multi-stakeholder partnership between offgrid renewable energy companies and a national utility in Africa. The project...

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The Chinese-language versions of the International ElectrotechnicalCommission’s (IEC) 62257-9-8 and 62257-9-5 off-grid solar quality standards, formally the World Bank Group’s Lighting Global Quality Standards, are officially published by the Standardization Administration of China (SAC), supported by Shenzhen Technology...

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The mobile platform uses big data, predictive statistics, and machine learning to establish financial identity and build alternative risk profiles for energy loan customers. Understanding the typical off-grid informal consumer, their values and culture,...

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