Renewable Energy World

MAY 31, 2021

The 40-MWac Khoumagueli Solar IPP project in Guinea has marked a significant milestone with the signing of a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between InfraCo Africa and Electricité de Guinée (EDG). A Concession Agreement for the project was signed in February 2019. A special purpose vehicle (SPV) named Khoumaguéli Solar S.A

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The multi-phase project will provide water to the Gauteng region of South Africa and generate hydroelectricity for Lesotho. Expected project benefits include greater water security in the Gauteng region and a boost to Lesotho’s socio-economic development due to infrastructure improvements and increased hydropower capacity.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

More than 80% of all new electricity capacity added last year was renewable, with solar and wind accounting for 91% of new renewables. However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. Africa continued to expand steadily with an increase of 2.6 China and the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As part of the deal, TotalEnergies will collaborate with the Rwanda Development Board to enhance hydropower and liquefied natural gas value chains. TotalEnergies will provide technologies within the electric vehicles charging sector to help Rwanda to embark on electrification and decarbonisation of the transport sector. Have you read?

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Global Renewable News

MAY 3, 2023

Three years after construction began,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. An area called ‘Zalli i Rupes, where environmental campaigners say gravel was dug for the construction of hydropower plants further down the river.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Global installed renewable electricity generation capacity in the 1.5°C The GRA represents the leading international industry players and provides a unified renewable energy voice. To rapidly accelerate deployment, permitting must be streamlined, supply chains strengthened, grids expanded, and finance must be unlocked.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA). according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 1.3

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Opencast coal mine to stage electric off-road rallying series before transformation into pumped hydro storage plant and wind farm Extreme E has this week confirmed the former Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway will host the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button at its Hydro X Prix on 13 and 14 May.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

When the electric grid is under strain, many electric utilities use the load shedding technique to lower demand and balance it with energy production. The utilities involved have undoubtedly taken all necessary steps to improve their capacity for producing electricity; therefore, expanding another power plant won’t work.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Alstom to deliver new battery electric trains for Chemnitz-Leipzig line. Engineering giant Alstom has signed a landmark deal with two German rail operators that will see it manufacture, deliver and maintain eleven Coradia Continental battery-electric trains for the Leipzig-Chemnitz route.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

Under the assumption that the average electricity cost is $0.07 hydropower and wind power). In East Africa, we started a pilot that transforms low-grade food waste to fly larvae for a nutritious source of animal feed protein “ – Unilever , Tackling manufacturing waste.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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The City Fix

MAY 7, 2024

Over the past several months, the climate pattern El Niño has disrupted different regions and sectors across the world. Zimbabwe recently declared a state of disaster, due largely to El Niño-induced drought. The city government in Bogotá, Colombia, announced water rationing as reservoir levels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output. Some companies, however, have a mixed track record on this issue.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Although hydropower continues to account for the largest share of total renewables capacity with 1,250GW, solar and wind continued to dominate new generating capacity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

per cent by 2030 , compared to a business-as-usual baseline and to get 50 per cent of its electricity from renewables and nuclear by 2050. The IPOs would come from the company's renewables, hydropower, and power trading arms, as it looks to fund its pivot towards green energy. South Korea drastically increases emissions goal.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 18, 2022

An integrated policy framework built around the energy transition could bring a wave of new sustainable energy investment to Africa, growing the continent’s economy by 6.4% Coordinated efforts should be made to ensure public spending – the dominant source of energy transition finance in Africa – clearly prioritizes renewables.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Power generated in Phase 1 will deliver up to 50 MW that will be sold to Ethiopian Electric Power, the state-owned utility, under a 25-year power purchase agreement. The country’s over-reliance on hydropower makes its energy supply susceptible to droughts.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report says that during the past decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before, but the number of people without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa increased. Globally, the number of people without access to electricity declined from 1.2

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

In Africa, it is even worse: 60 per cent of people lack coverage. The Formula E racing series has revealed that it will next month unveil its new Gen3 all-electric race car at an event at the Yacht Club de Monaco on 28 April ahead of the 2022 Monaco E-Prix. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Ford is planning to build its biggest ever factory in Tennessee, as part of $11.4bn investment geared towards electric vehicle (EV) production in the USA, it announced this week. We are moving now to deliver breakthrough electric vehicles for the many rather than the few.". Rich Nations pitch $5bn to fund south africa coal exit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many of the forested parts of the country, the province lacks just about everything, from schools and hospitals to roads and airports, to electricity and running water. Education is only one of several needs in Mai Ndombe. Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - African proverb. The DRC is at a crossroads.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The second camp sees a growing role for fossil fuels as the global population expands and hundreds of millions of people seek to join the energy-intensive middle classes, especially in Asia and Africa. My personal opinion favors the first camp, but I will elaborate on both. Camp 1 – No, Oil will not recover.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 10, 2023

As access to electricity is one of the main drivers of development, increasing the country’s electrification is long overdue. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest electrification rates on the African continent and in the world. The DRC’s electrification rate is around 10%.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 4, 2023

For the last couple of decades, Zimbabweans have been subjected to electricity rationing due to several reasons, such as frequent droughts affecting hydropower generation and regular breakdowns at the country’s aging coal power plants.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Access to electricity is still below 20%. The majority of the population lives in rural areas, and those with access to electricity in rural areas are estimated to be around 1%. The country’s electricity company […]. Malawi has one of the lowest electrification rates on the African continent.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 3, 2022

Kenya’s grid is very green thanks to some awesome geothermal, wind, utility scale solar, and hydropower plants. All of these clean renewables are responsible for about 90% of the electricity generated in Kenya. Kenya’s Driveelectric has shown over a year-long exercise how driving electric in […].

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to the February 2021 “Unlocking Africa’s Mini-Grid Market” report, 60% of Africa’s population lives in rural areas. Only 5% of this rural population has access to modern electricity services, without which sustainable development cannot take place.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Kenya is one of the best places to drive electric vehicles (EVs). Kenya's grid is very green thanks to awesome geothermal, wind, utility-scale solar, and hydropower plants. All of these make up 93% of Kenya’s generation capacity.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 18, 2020

It's clear to see that by increasing the penetration of electric vehicles every year, EV adoption will displace a significant amount of CO2 in Kenya. Kenya’s grid is already powered by a generation mix that is 93% renewable, thanks to significant contributions from geothermal, hydropower, wind, and some utility-scale solar plants.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 6, 2020

Driveelectric Kenya’s suite of services is tailored to take away the risks (both financial and technological) for its customers, who like in most parts of the world are new to the world of electric vehicles.

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