The Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction site will be delivered in 2022 instead of 2021 as originally planned by the Zimbabwean authorities. The delay is due to the health crisis caused by the Covid-19. Workers at the construction site of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam recently received a visit from the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs of Bulawayo…
Read MoreBoniface Jiveri, a researcher currently working at Kaimosi Friends University College, has invented a clean cooking and lighting fuel that peri-urban and rural poor can use. The fuel, Bio-gel, is also a mosquito repellent and air freshener. In addition, Jiveri generates organic fertiliser from the waste that is used to produce the gel. In 2017,…
Read MoreIn Madagascar, the entry into service of the Volobe hydroelectric plant (120 MW) could be compromised due to the insufficient water resource, reports Express de Madagascar . The Ivondro river, which hosts the infrastructure, is in great danger of not being adequately supplied by its tributaries, which are the Onibe, Namandrahana and Ivoloina rivers, among…
Read MorePlummeting oil prices, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, have left Africa’s oil and gas producers staring at the bottom of the barrel. Renewables could offer them a way out. Months before Covid-19 triggered a historic oil price crash, there were signs that the market was already in ill-health. In December 2019, Nigeria’s environment minister warned…
Read MoreThe Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) is completing the financing of the solar minigrids project led by Arc Power, a company based in London, UK. This project will provide access to electricity to 145,000 people in remote areas of Rwanda. Arc Power is obtaining £300,000 (over €335,000) from the Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), a…
Read MoreAn Africa-focused power company Themis Group announced it has issued a Full Notice to Proceed (FNTP) with construction of the 44MW Singrobo Hydropower Project, in Ivory Coast. Sponsored by a consortium including the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and IHE Holding, a local development company, Singrobo will begin delivering much needed electricity to the Ivorian power…
Read MoreRepresentative Josiah Marvin Cole of Bong’s District Three has commenced the installations of solar streetlights across the district. The lawmaker inaugurated the installation of the solar streetlights project Saturday in Gbarnga with a charge on the benefiting communities, towns and villages to judiciously use and protect the facilities. Speaking at the flag off of the…
Read MoreThe office of the United Nations Development Programme in Togo (Pnud-Togo) has just launched a call for tenders for the selection of several national consultants, technicians in electricity and/or renewable energy. They will assist in monitoring and supervising the installation of 6,894 solar-powered street lamps in the country’s regions. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
Read MorePan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has, through his ‘Re-Imagine Rural’ initiative, completed a 100KW solar power project at Ndolwane in Bulilimamangwe district near Zimbabwe’s border town of Plumtree, in the country’s southwestern province of Matabeleland South. Breaking the news on his popular Facebook blog, Masiyiwa wrote: There is a place in rural Zimbabwe called…
Read MoreThe African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have stated that the energy potential in Africa can turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity for the continent and its population. AUC and IRENA recently held a virtual high-level dialogue to discuss Africa’s needs in responding to the COVID-19 crisis and the…
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