The Abu Dhabi Development Fund (ADFD), which offers low interest loans, will meet up to half the costs of selected solar projects in Togo and Guyana with loans totalling $23 million. The two countries secured the loans at the ninth assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Read MoreThe UK government announced at the COP24 event in Poland an extra £100 million of renewable energy funding for the Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) in Africa.
Read MoreVoltalia has started construction of the 32MW Râ Solar Plant in Egypt
Read MoreHanergy Mobile Energy Holdings Group, the world’s largest thin-film power solution company recently announced that its subsidiary, Hanergy Glory Solar Technology has successfully delivered the latest solar powered electric cars to China’s top delivery companies.
Read MoreStudents from two high schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa had the opportunity to learn more about renewable power resources and climate change. The students from Hopefield High and Weston High Schools were the latest to welcome the custom-built “EnergyDrive” truck, the main feature of a project that was launched in November 2016 by the Durban University of Technology.
Read MoreHanergy Thin-Film Power Group, a pioneering multinational clean energy company, recently launched its “Lighting Africa” corporate social responsibility (CSR) project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Read MoreZero Mass Water, a USA company based in Scottsdale, Arizona recently launched its flagship SOURCE Hydropanel product in South Africa. The SOURCE Hydropanel is an installation that turns sunshine and air into good quality drinking water in nearly all climatic conditions around the world.
Read MoreThe Algerian government is looking at resuscitating its large-scale solar plans by restarting the 4 GW solar tender which was first announced in March 2017. This was recently revealed by Mouloud Bakli who is the president of Algerian solar energy association, Club Energia, and managing director of Tell Group.
Read MoreLeading Chinese industrial electrical equipment manufacturer and clean energy supplier Chint Electric has committed US$52 million as guarantee for a 100 MW solar project ear marked for Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland South province to the south west of the country.
Read MoreThe cost of addressing the needs of Sub-Saharan Africa’s power sector has been estimated at US$14 billion a year, which is equivalent to 6% of Africa’s gross domestic product. This was said by South Africa’s Energy Department Minister Jeff Radebe while delivering his welcome speech on the opening day of the two day Power & Electricity World Africa 2018 expo at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
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