President Yoweri Museveni has directed elimination of Uganda’s leading power distributors Umeme from supplying electricity to the country’s industrial hubs. The President said going forward, power going to the various industrial parks will bypass Umeme … read more
Three pioneering students have won the 2020 Micro-Grid Academy Young Talent of the Year Award, given out by the RES4Africa Foundation in recognition of their ingenuity and their positive potential impact on their communities. Eileen … read more
Solar and wind energy have the potential to meet global electricity demand 100 times over, and the costs of these renewables are collapsing so rapidly that fossil fuels could be pushed out of electricity generation … read more
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has issued an ultimatum of two months within which to eliminate all substandard solar products from the market. Mr Andrew Otieno, the manager in charge of standards enforcement … read more
The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) was established in 2019 with the aim of accelerating the creation of sustainable markets for distributed and stand-alone off-grid energy services in rural and peri-urban Africa based … read more
Women in energy and their role in economic and environmental developmentWomen are a basic power for reasonably overseeing natural resources and increasing clean energy access, which helps battle environmental crisis and improves livelihoods and wellbeing. … read more
The Startup|Energy initiative for the promotion of East African start-ups in the field of decentralised renewable energy supply has received another supporting member with SolarAid. The importance of the initiative – with GIZ as the … read more
Traditionally, there is no word for business among the pastoralist communities of the arid Marsabit County, in northern Kenya. Nor do they have words for any of its most common terms, such as profit. Instead, … read more
Ashden, a UK charity, has been supporting transformative climate solutions for 20 years. More than 800 organisations applied for the 2021 Ashden Awards, and Association of Sendea Uganda Ltd is one of just 38 to … read more
Greenpeace Africa has described news that Uganda and Tanzania have finalised plans to build an oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga as a ‘neo-colonial project that has vast environmental and climate risks’. Uganda, Tanzania and oil … read more
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