Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s 20 least-electrified countries by percentage of population without electricity are all in Sub-Saharan Africa.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 28, 2019
BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. Roughly 600 million of Africa’s 1.2 Overall, the solar home system market has raised more than $1.1 billion through 2018.
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Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
alive without the electric utilities sector moving more quickly away from polluting fossil fuels to renewable energy. COP28 is our opportunity to hold the electric utilities sector accountable for a faster energy transition. Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5
Smart Energy International
APRIL 2, 2024
Lucy Electric has launched the UK’s first ring main unit (RMU) for medium voltage networks using synthetic air. The Thame-based power distribution solutions developer launched EcoTech, which uses a nitrogen and oxygen blend instead of the SF6-gas currently used to insulate critical electrical network equipment.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The people and principles needed to solve the challenges of financing solar power for frontline health clinics in Africa, Asia and elsewhere were represented on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact Call No. 24 earlier.
Climate 4.0
JUNE 2, 2021
In meeting its emissions-reduction challenges, East Africa faces a less daunting challenge than many parts of the world, mostly because its manufacturing sector and traditional infrastructure is so underdeveloped. East Africa is less dire overall than many regions. The Numbers Needed to Achieve Progress To do so, it needs electricity.
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 2, 2023
The LEAP Fund, backed by Drive Electric, was founded in 2022 to encourage low-carbon transitions and minimise fossil-fuel vehicle lock-in. We see notable leadership in electric vehicle innovation, vision, and motivation in many emerging markets,” said Rebecca Fisher, director of the Drive Electric Campaign. “We Have you read?
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