Market activity quieted down in the Chinese cell market as most market participants stood on the sidelines unsure if prices had bottomed out. Demand remained tepid as most market participants were not in an...

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The standalone mini-grid is a 78kWp, ground mounted solar PV system with 324kWh of battery bank storage.It uses Ulica solar modules, Alpha ESS inverters and lithium-ion batteries.A remote monitoring system using the Alpha ESS was installed to provide real-timeinformation about...

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In a bid to enhance the penetration of energy efficient light bulbs in the country, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and The Gambia Standards Bureau (TGSB) with support from ECOWAS Centre for Renewable...

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The Rural and Renewable Energy Agency (RREA) signed the first in a series of Project Subsidy Grant Agreements with Rural Solar Incorporated. The ceremony took place in the RREA Conference Room and included partners...

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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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