Salma Okonkwo, the head of the UBI Group, a multi-million-dollar oil and gas company, is building Ghana’s largest solar farm. It is due to open in March 2019, supplying 100 megawatts of energy. As an…
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DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA — When Asteria Lymo saw her prepaid electricity meter was short of units, she grabbed her smartphone and bought some using Tigo Pesa, a local application that allows customers to pay…
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – African governments have pledged to restore degraded land, invest in agriculture and create “green jobs” for young people in a drive to tackle youth unemployment, fight against radicalization, and stem…
It looks like the time has finally come for residents across Africa to start using their most abundant natural power source. While building power plants and transmission lines takes years and costs much more, installing…
Monrovia — International icon Akon will on Thursday turn on lights in communities around the J.W. Pearson Elementary School on Carey Street as part of his lighting Africa project. Akon will join forces with Tikkun…
By Izael Pereira Da Silva I The Conversation Africa. The spread of solar and other modern energy technologies in African countries is considerably low. Despite the global viability and growth in the solar energy market,…
Rashid Umar Abbas | Reuters After four rocky years as a publicly traded company in the volatile renewable energy sector, SolarCity may now be wading into an equally uncertain future. With a tentative agreement to…