Water experts are sceptical about whether UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will be fully met by 2015; unless the current pace is dramatic accelerated, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly met last week...
Rwanda will become the first East African country with a utility-scale solar plant. The $24 million plant will be constructed outside the country’s capital, Kigali. Gigawatt Global and Energiya Global will construct the solar power plant and...
Recording artist Akon has launched “Akon Lighting Africa” in an effort to bring electricity to one million African households by the end of the year. More than two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is without electricity. The Akon...
Sobering facts make a case for wind and solar power An American report, The Hidden Costs of Electricity: Comparing the Hidden Costs of Power Generation Fuels, analyses six fuels used to generate electricity ie biomass, coal, nuclear, natural gas,...
Electricity levels in the port city of Beira in central Mozambique have reached critical levels following a major breakdown at the Chibata sub-station in Manica at the end of January. The public electricity company, EDM, has been struggling to...
Tanzania is currently spending large sums of money on importing fuel to generate electricity.However natural gas could change this. If natural gas from Mtwara is fully utilised by all sectors, it could save Sh1.6 trillion (R11 billion) annually by...
Africa’s power development challenge is enormous, with more than 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacking access to electricity. “In this modern world electrification cannot be overemphasised and therefore all countries must endeavour to...
Nairobi’s $314 million (R3.5billion) waste-to-energy project is scheduled to launch later this month. The solid waste recycling plant that will turn millions of cubic tonnes of solid, organic and inorganic waste into electricity is expected to take...
Renewable energy production is taking shape all over South Africa. This year will see several wind farms start to supply electricity as part of the Independent Power Producers programme. But electricity generation with solar energy is also...
