In the drought-prone district of Bugesera, south-east of Rwandas’s capital city Kigali, 24 year old Peruth Tuyishime is one of six farming group members working on a one hectare farm. The farm grows a range … read more
A new 50kW mini-grid in the village of Rutenderi in eastern Rwanda, has kick-started the local economy and is beginning to transform the sleepy rural village into a productive hub. The new mini-grid was formally … read more
On June 25, the World Bank launched the 14th edition of Rwanda Economic Update, including a special update on “Lighting Rwanda”, which takes stock of progress made in delivering affordable, reliable and clean electricity. The World … read more
More and more safari lodges across Africa are turning to green energy alternatives; alternatives that are clean and of lesser environmental impact compared to the conventional fossil fuel energy resources. It’s not only a better … read more
Rwanda said on Tuesday it had signed a $400 million deal to produce bottled gas from Lake Kivu, which emits such dense clouds of methane it is known as one of Africa’s “Killer Lakes”. The … read more
According to the to the latest Climatescope findings published by BloombergNEF (BNEF), Rwanda’s burgeoning off-grid market helped propel it ahead of all its African peers in this year’s Climatescope edition. “Through 2017, over 185,000 solar home … read more
Researchers at the University of Rwanda and Colorado State University’s (CSU) Energy Institute have joined forces to create microgrids that will provide energy access to rural, off-grid communities in Rwanda and across Sub-Saharan Africa. Rwanda’s … read more
In 2016, four entrepreneurs from different countries formed a start-up called Ampersand with a mission to transform Rwanda into a mass market for commercial electric motorcycles. In a market like Rwanda where commercial taxi motorcycles … read more
When it comes to productive use of solar energy, solar water pumps are becoming increasingly important. Thanks to modern, energy-efficient technology, their use is of particular economic interest to small farmers: with solar water pumps, … read more
Rwanda is a country with many hills, thus expansion of electricity is expensive. Hence no wonder that at the present, the major energy resource used in Rwanda is fuel wood biomass where the current national … read more
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