02/14/2024
This marks a significant departure from his origins in oil and gas, spotlighting a future where Africa's vast mineral wealth underpins the worldwide shift to renewable energy and sustainable technologies.
02/12/2024
The bounce-back scheme came into effect in 2023, designed to help small businesses and consumers access financing for energy solutions.
02/06/2024
While grid capacity is saturated in many parts of the country, the coal-rich province of Mpumalanga has a surplus of connections that can be exploited by the mining sector.
01/22/2024
The two organisations explained that the funds would enable the government to address existing gaps in energy transmission and achieve universal electricity access.
01/05/2024
This follows the recent approval of the country’s Green Hydrogen Commercialisation Strategy (GHCS) made in the last quarter of 2023 by the South African cabinet
12/14/2023
This is a five-year rotational process that appraises progress countries have made towards meeting their climate targets.
12/12/2023
Climate change significantly impacts malnutrition, affecting food systems, availability, access, and nutritional quality.
12/11/2023
The approval, coming during COP28, where ramping-up climate finance is an issue, is timely and topical.
12/11/2023
With many African countries balancing development needs with pressure to curb emissions, the continent is seeking over $250 billion annually by 2030 in external financing for climate action.
12/07/2023
Africa needs at least $500 billion for renewable energy capabilities by 2030, and $2 trillion by 2050
12/07/2023
This will give businesses access to reliable renewable energy, even if they do not want to enter into a long-term contract.
12/06/2023
KenGen owns a 26MW wind farm in Ngong Hills and sold 57 Gigawatt hours of electricity generated from the plant to Kenya Power in the year that ended in June.
12/05/2023
This follows a day after the current and incoming chairs of the CVF endorsed and launched the COP28 finance declaration.
12/04/2023
The banks also expressed support for various sectors
12/04/2023
The successful roll out of the facility will depend largely on partnerships such as the World Food Programme to deliver services to clients.
12/04/2023
The African Green Bank Initiative is an initiative by the multilateral lender as a workable and realistic solution to the lack of climate finance in the continent.
12/04/2023
The Horn-of-Africa nation is turning to renewable energy to boost electricity coverage, which stood at 50% of the population in 2020 according to the World Bank, leaving 60mln people outside of the grid
11/30/2023
The farms are part of a three-project cluster that is being co-developed by South African renewable energy developers H1 Capital and EDF Renewables.
11/27/2023
The products, which included solar-powered TV sets, Air Conditioners, and PoS machines, among many others, were launched on Tuesday at the Access Bank Branch in Garki, Abuja.
11/23/2023
An integral aspect of this deal is its contribution to processing approximately 50 million cubic feet per day of natural gas that would otherwise be flared.