South Africa has taken another step close to achieving sustainable energy production with the gazetting of a draft policy on sustainable hydropower generation. The gazetting of the revised draft of the Sustainable Hydropower Policy (2015) by the...
A new World Bank report draws from experiences in five African countries to explain why independent power projects (IPPs) are crucial to help deliver electricity to the 600 million people without it in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa’s power sector...
Nigeria has been one of the shining stars in the African economy over the last decade. And has significant potential for sustainable growth. But one area which needs immediate attention and investment is the power sector, where the low availability...
In September last year, the Gouda Wind Farm, owned in partnership by the South African company, Aveng, and the Spanish renewable energy company, Acciona Energia, began operations with a generating capability of 423 gigawatt hours of electricity...
