A rural community near the port town of Saint-Louis on the Senegal-Mauritania border will now benefit from a solar-powered pump system financed by the German Agency for International Development Cooperation. Powered by an array of solar panels with a combined 14.8 kW capacity, the solar pumping system can pump up to 2,000 cubic meters
The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) to phase out the use of biomass through their Charcoal to Power Project. Uganda Prisons Service’s facilities will transit from using biomass for cooking to using electricity for cooking. This initiative is under a project named The Charcoal
The Board of Directors of AfDB recently approved funding to develop renewable energy investments in the country. The project has leveraged co-financing from the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program, a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, amounting to $28.49 million and $13.30 million, respectively. The project
Arla Foods is to collaborate with the renewable energy company Better Energy on four new solar parks that will cover approximately one third of Arla’s electricity consumption in Denmark by 2024. Arla said it is the most extensive agreement on renewable electricity from a Danish company without public subsidies in Danish history and one of
Capstone Green Energy, a global leader in carbon reduction and on-site resilient green energy solutions, today announced that it has received an order for a 600 kilowatt (kW), C600S energy solution system, to be installed at a remote food processing facility in Bamako, Mali. The order was secured through the Capstone Green Energy Direct Sales
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