Energy Storage News

APRIL 19, 2024

South Africa’s electricity minister has said the largest solar-plus-storage project in the Southern Hemisphere is evidence of efforts to mitigate the country’s difficult energy security situation.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 24, 2024

GameChange Solar has been selected to supply its Genius Tracker solar trackers for four new solar projects totalling approximately 500 MW in Southern Africa. The company has also announced a training and service center for its Genius Tracker products in South Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As policymakers and leaders around the world prepare for pivotal climate discussions at COP28, the sector must seize the momentum to create more renewable energy, enabling other sectors to decarbonise, and shifting demand away from fossil fuels. Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Investment and spending on energy access in sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets screeched to a halt at the outset of the COVID-19. The post Zola Electric scores $8 million partnership for solar mini-grids in Africa appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

Energy Web and ENGIE Energy Access are launching ‘Crowdfund for Solar’ to fund clean energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. ENGIE Energy Access is a leading provider of solar and mini-grid solutions in Africa, with delivery of renewable energy to 7 million people across nine countries to date.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rather than racing to extract natural gas, those who caused the climate crisis should help Africa harness its wind and sun Vanessa Nakate is a Unicef goodwill ambassador and youth climate activist It’s official: we’re about to reach peak fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A district outside of Cape Town has recently installed SF 6 -free switchgear, the first installation of its kind in Africa. The Drakenstein Municipality project is an ongoing collaboration with clean tech developer Schneider Electric and system integrator partner, Altek.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Amplats) to develop infrastructure in South Africa that will encourage the production and use of hydrogen cars in the country. ” Amplats mines platinum group metals that are used in fuel cell electric vehicles. Transitioning to lower carbon energy sources will be a challenge for South Africa.

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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 idea of a coal phase-out does not hold true everywhere,” said Olivia Coldrey, Head of Energy Finance and Clean Cooking at SEforALL. “We

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Developed in response to the 2014 Ebola crisis, 32 solar microgrids will provide first-time access to electricity to 80,000 people in West Africa. Developed in response to the 2014 Ebola crisis, 32 solar microgrids will provide first-time access to electricity to 80,000 people in West Africa. Courtesy: Energicity).

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Charged

MAY 11, 2023

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), which serves Africa’s largest city, plans to deploy 12,000 electric buses over the next seven years. Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL), a subsidiary of the Nigerian multinational oil company Oando, will provide charging infrastructure.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

In his speech given at COP28, Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto reiterated the commitment his government made at the Africa Climate Summit to supply vast amounts of cheap and clean electricity to the Kenyan people.

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TechCrunch: Climate

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the face of South Africa’s worsening energy crisis, marked by increasingly severe power shortages, implementing daily electricity rationing has become imperative to avert the risk of a nationwide grid collapse.

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The City Fix

MARCH 27, 2024

At COP28, global climate leaders congregated in Dubai for the annual opportunity to review countries’ progress on emissions reductions and to increase climate ambition. One of the conference’s focal points was how to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 15, 2023

Africa green steel Green steel is the manufacturing of steel without the use of fossil fuels. And if that hydrogen is produced via electrolysis using just water and renewable electricity, then it is completely free of CO₂. When burned, hydrogen emits only water.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

Investment in commercial and industrial (C&I) solar seems to be holding up in Africa as the COVID-19 pandemic dents investor confidence across the continent, insiders have said. Zahid Hassen, director of the Africa Renewable Power Fund at London, U.K.-based billion and $1.2 billion this year. These things are there to stay.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The emergency procurement round, for dispatchable generation due online by mid-2022, has raised hopes that a long-awaited fifth round of the country’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) will be opened up soon. 22, after an original Nov. 24 deadline was extended. But exactly when it unclear.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 29, 2020

-The Qbera-Schneider Electric Solar alliance brings together the financing and technology needed to provide access to energy in Sub Saharan Africa -Improving access to energy in Sub Saharan Africa is critical for UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 -The first round of projects of 15 MW will be rolled out across in Mali, Ghana and Burkina Faso

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

More than 500 million are living in Africa without access to electricity. It needs billions in new clean energy investment. Public-private partnerships are one solution.

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TechXplore

APRIL 18, 2024

A study, published in Nature Energy, is among the first to explore the floating photovoltaics (FPV) at the continental scale, finding that FPV installed at existing major reservoirs could produce 20–100% of the electricity expected from Africa's planned hydropower dams.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Weza Power, a new privately-owned and operated electricity distribution company, aims to bring grid power to almost 70% of the East African country’s population. According to Gridworks, only 12% of the country’s 12 million people currently have access to electricity, with that number falling to 2% in rural areas.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Despite the global economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, the case for investing in Africa is stronger than ever. Africa will remain a competitive investment destination for decades to come because of its improving relative risk profiles, regional integration and strong economic fundamentals. Salma Okonkwo. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:10.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

New IEA report reveals encouraging recent trends have been thrown into reverse by the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but clean energy investment could swiftly reignite development.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Solar solutions provider Sungrow has signed a supply agreement with French renewable energy group EDF Renewables to provide liquid-cooled energy storage systems and MV transformers for the Umoyilanga project in South Africa which, once connected to the grid, will help alleviate impacts of the country’s power crisis.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this episode of the Energy Transitions Podcast, we hear from Leon Laing, Manager: Planning and Customer Services at the Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape, South Africa, on how the SF6-free transition is revolutionising how they manage and operate their power distribution system.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Companies providing off-grid energy access raised over $2.1 An estimated 420 million people globally now use standalone off-grid solar, while another 47 million people rely on mini-grids for access to electricity, according to the World Bank and IFC. The C&I energy access opportunity. Globally, nearly 3.5

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Energy Transition

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the height of power blackouts in South Africa earlier this year households went without electricity for 10 hours a days. The unprecedented spike in outage hours saw the middle class scramble for alternative energy sources to buffer against the failing electricity grid.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Energy Dome and Ansaldo Energia have announced a partnership to bring energy storage facilities to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Long-duration energy storage solutions provider Energy Dome will provide the CO2 battery technology. Image courtesy of Energy Dome. CO2 battery technology.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But Siva Gunda warns extreme climate conditions pose unprecedented challenges “Climate change is making it difficult to fight climate change,” according to Siva Gunda, vice-chair of the California Energy Commission. And Gunda said that by 2030 there will be seven million electric vehicles on the road in California.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 29, 2019

ImpactAlpha, August 29 – Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has been in the solar energy game for 40 years. Until recently, that side of of the company didn’t have much of a footprint in Africa, where 600 million people still have little or no access to electricity.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

Alok Sharma travels to South Africa this week to confirm fresh funding for major sustainable development programme that experts hope could provide template for further deals. The South African Just Energy Transition Partnership embodies the ambition we called for at COP26.

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Financial Times: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

Electricity tsar says issue that has plagued the country for more than a decade would be largely over by year end

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 5, 2019

Solar energy is gaining ground in Africa — a power source that can help provide electricity to remote regions of the continent and in turn, advance economic development and lifestyle improvements.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Investments in off-grid power in Africa and Asia have skyrocketed in the last five years. The money is finally bringing lights, cell phone charging and electric stoves to millions of people who had to rely on kerosene and wood. Can they scale to meet a high-energy society? GTM: Investment in Off-Grid Energy Access Totals $1.7B

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2024

Falling prices, increased demand and concentration of supply characterise the critical minerals panorama as energy transitions advance, the IEA has reported. Nickel , likewise used in a wide variety of clean energy and other applications, sees demand almost doubling to 2050 driven by the rapid deployment of EV batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insiders predict agricultural companies could become major adopters of solar power in Africa as farmers seek to improve the cost and reliability of energy supplies. “The electricity demand and supply profiles of the agriculture sector make solar PV a perfect fit,” he said in an email.

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