The Kariba Dam, a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. GettyImages Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that hopes renewable energy technologies will help to address their energy problems. About 42% of Zimbabwe’s households are connected to the electricity […]
A Canadian renewable energy firm on Wednesday sued Citigroup Inc for rejecting force majeure declarations during a February winter storm and billing it over $100 million for replacement power, according to lawsuits filed in a Texas state court.
There is a huge shortfall in the investment needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and the private sector has a crucial role to play in plugging it.
The rollout of decentralised renewable energy could be a game-changer in bringing power to a country whose citizens and businesses are poorly served by the grid
Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia. Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans Cyrus Sinai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rob Fetter, Duke University There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential […]
Abidjan, Ivory Coast/ — The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has committed $530 million to finance the construction of a 343 km, 400 kV central-south transmission line that will connect the north and south transmission grids in Angola and allow for the distribution of clean energy between the two regions.
Abu Dhabi, UAE, 16 March 2021 – Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds the preview of World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable power, green hydrogen and modern bioenergy will dominate the world of energy of the future.
Washington, U.S//— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a total of $22.5 million in additional financing to the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP).
There has been a dramatic shift from traditional thinking in the last decade and propelled by the Covid-19 crisis which is now driving focus on the environmental, social and health elements of investments globally.
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our times, and women are disproportionately vulnerable to it and have an important role in addressing it.
