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15/04/2024
Uchenna Igwe

The African country has the lowest access to electricity in the world. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of energy poverty. 32-year-old green energy entrepreneur Yetunde Fadeyi will never forget what inspired her to start a clean energy company in Nigeria.

Solar Power in Uganda: Cutting Milk Loss, Lowering Energy Costs and Increasing Farmers’ Income

12/04/2024
Heifer International / Sun-Connect News
Article

The dairy sector currently represents 6.5 percent of the country’s agricultural gross domestic product and dairy production is reported by the Dairy Development Authority of Uganda (DDA) to be a major activity in the cattle corridor, a stretch of rangeland covering more than a third of the country.

Nine Business Models for Productive Use of Electricity in Africa: A Framework for Generating Profit and Impact in Off-Grid Energy

10/04/2024
Olowo Aminu, Bodunde Akinola, Nneka Chime and Mosorire Aiyeyemi
Article

In rural fishing communities in Nigeria, lack of access to grid electricity forces fishers to rely on traditional methods of storage for their catch, like sun-drying, salting and smoking.

Transforming Lives for the Disabled with Solar – a case study of Allamano Special School, Nyeri, Kenya

08/04/2024
Gathu Kirubi PhD, Solar Energy Foundation Kenya
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What comes to mind when you think of visiting a school for kids with a wide range of mental disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, downs drome among other conditions? If you consider yourself to be “mentally normal” like myself, then you expect finding kids who are sad and gloomy, shy and timid, hopeless and desperate.

Africa’s electricity access planners turn to geospatial mapping

06/04/2024
Darlain Edeme, Martin Kueppers, Stephen J. Lee, Daniel Wetzel
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Around 600 million people in Africa still lack access to electricity. Despite recent progress, electrification efforts face new headwinds since the Covid-19 pandemic, with a growing debt crisis, poor utility financial health, and increased affordability challenges.

What happened to the Just Energy Transition grant funding?

03/04/2024
Katrina Lehmann-Grube, Imraan Valodia, Julia Taylor and Sonia Phalatse
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We take a closer look at the Just Energy Transition grants register and some of the key trends, to determine who the money has gone to, when it was disbursed and what it was spent on.

Nigeria’s energy crisis: Shedding light on corruption, obstacles, reforms for Energy Transition

02/04/2024
Donald Ikenna Ofoegbu
Article

In the sweltering heat of Nigeria, where temperatures soar above 36 degrees Celsius, the oppressive reality of epileptic power supply casts a dark shadow over daily life. As citizens endure the unbearable heat and frequent blackouts, the quest for reliable electricity becomes a desperate plea for relief.

The philanthropic disparities in clean energy funding

29/03/2024
Rose Ng’ang’a
Article

Western philanthropies, including foundations, funds, and others, spend billions of dollars annually to help countries adapt to climate change by investing in clean energy. However, compared to the funds dedicated to projects in poor countries in the world, the disparities are so huge that one gets a sense of an apartheid-like culture.

Solar-Powered Battery Swap Stations Could Speed Rwanda’s Shift to Electric ‘Motos’

27/03/2024
Cheng Zhang and Miao Hong
Article

Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 million people. Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on “motos” can be found zipping up and down most busy streets in the East African nation.