To encourage private sector participation in the provision of renewable energy in remote places, a programme dubbed, Off-Grid Rural Electrification Smart Subsidy (OG-RESS) has been launched.The programme, supported by the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) and World...

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Billions of people around the world, including the majority of Africans and most of the world's rural population, rely on polluting fuels like wood or charcoal for their cooking energy needs. The use of...

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For many years under the darkness of the night sky, thousands of small-scale fishermen set sail off various beaches of Lake Victoria, lit various types of kerosene lamps and waited for fish to come...

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Finnish water technology company, Solar Water Solutions (SWS) has come a little close to being able to offer the world essentially unlimited fresh water supply through a zero-emissions, zero-running cost and eco-friendly desalination technology.

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As the sun sets and darkness falls over a village outside Bahawalpur, Shama Bibi switches on her solar lantern and starts sewing clothes for an upcoming family wedding. Not long ago, nightfall would have...

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With the theme of driving dual circulation, the 130th Canton Fair will be held from Oct 15 – 19 in an online-offline merged format.In addition to around 60,000 booths on its virtual exhibition that...

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The Bangladesh Army will install 80,000 solar home systems （Sinoware SHS）and 5,000 community arrays in the hilly districts of Chittagong after the government doubled the scale of an installation drive in the area.The cabinet...

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The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) financing was approved at its 342nd Board of Directors meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is a loan of 17.38 million euros for the electrification of rural areas of Togo...

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The Kenyan startups Drop Access and Inno-Neat have won the Startup|Energy Award at the end of the Energy Camp East Africa on 29. September 2021. A total of five start-ups from the decentralised energy...

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A report released a few years ago stated that only 13% of rural households had access to any kind of electricity. Rural households account for 67% of the population and that would mean 100%...

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