The seed funding from the firm, which is a member of Nigerian’s Sahara Group oil marketing company, is expected to help them scale up entrepreneurial projects and connect them to global opportunities. The beneficiaries of … read more
d.light chief operating officer Jacob Okoth said the assistance was aimed at easing suffering among their customers as they struggle to find a new economic activity that will enable them service their product loans. The … read more
Data shows that at least 25 percent of the population who live without electricity access dwell in remote rural and peri-urban areas of the country where infrastructure is still subpar. Energy generation from solar and … read more
In the wake of the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, latest data from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook shows the continent’s meager progress in improving electrification will be reversed. In fact, the population living … read more
The bill highlights that in the African continent, Tunisia and Senegal have noticed the potential of startups in their countries to support rapid social-economic development, which has resulted in them enacting their own laws to … read more
The project seeks to have 250,000 households served by stand-alone solar systems and 150,000 households served by Clean Cooking Solutions (CCS). It further seeks to construct 157 mini-grids in the targeted counties that will be … read more
A team of MIT researchers is using the thermodynamic properties of water evaporation to bring off-grid cold storage of produce to remote, arid regions. The team’s models indicate that a standard 40-foot-long shipping container outfitted … read more
In September, the company secured $90m in funding from investors including the CDC Group, FMO, and Norfund. The finance is being used to replace unsecured with secured debt, to reduce the interest rate, says Walsh. … read more
As a result across Africa, it costs a utility such as Kenya Power Sh150,000 to connect a customer to power, compared to only Sh74,000 for a min-grid company such as Powerhive in Kisii to connect … read more
Olivier Mbera, the General Manager of EnviroServe Rwanda, a public private partnership e-waste recycling facility in Bugesera District said that if not well disposed, solar products waste could endanger human health. He explained that the facility collected … read more
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