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24/04/2024
Stiftung Solarenergie

Stiftung Solarenergie is excited to announce that the cooperation with GET.invest to promote African energy startups will be continued. Both organizations have already been supporting African energy startups since 2021 as part of the Startup|Energy initiative. This cooperation will now be extended.

Beyond “The Poor”: Using Empowering Narratives to Advance the Impacts of Aid

22/04/2024
Catherine Thomas & Shloka Kumar
Article

Three reasons why the development community should lead the shift away from using deficit-focused language and model how we can do better

Is The Shift Towards Renewable Energy Holding Back Development in Africa?

20/04/2024
Kumbirai Makanza
Article

A few months back, my Linkedin feed was inundated with posts celebrating the remarkable growth of South Africa’s Solar Photovoltaic (PV) sector signalled by a significant surge in solar panel imports.

12 Clean Energy Innovations at Bootcamp in Nairobi

17/04/2024
Startup|Energy
Article

You might think that there is hardly anything less exciting than innovative products and business ideas that come from a university context: Too much theory, too little practical relevance. The 12 participants of the Clean Energy Bootcamp of Startup|Energy from April 10 to 15, 2024 in Nairobi proved the opposite.

‘I want to tackle it in a big way’: Meet the Nigerian women spearheading solar projects

15/04/2024
Uchenna Igwe
Article

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
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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.