Category: Member article
WaterKiosk Opens Largest Solar-powered Desalination Plant in Zanzibar
15 February 2022 – The young Nairobi-based company WaterKiosk Limited commissioned Zanzibar’s largest solar-powered water desalination plant on February 12, 2022. The water kiosk will supply Zanzibar’s largest hospital, Mnazi Moja Hospital in Stone Town, with 100,000 litres of clean drinking water […]
Solartia to Develop Hybrid Mini-grids in Honduras
14 January 2022 – With the aim of increasing the current energy access rate in Honduras (80%), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as a facilitator for sustainable socio-economic and environmental development in Latin America and the Caribbean, made available to the Government […]
CBE to connect an 8 MWp solar power plant to the Tôlagnaro mine in Madagascar
11 January 2022 – Energy provider and ARE Member CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) will build an 8 MWp solar photovoltaic power plant at the Tôlagnaro ilmenite mine operated by QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), the Anglo-Australian subsidiary of Rio Tinto, starting in […]
ENGIE Equatorial inaugurates game-changing Lolwe Mini-Grid in Uganda
Fully integrated clean energy multi-utility, from electricity to rural service delivery Aligned with a sustainable, green and blue economy Business model centered around productive use of energy Life-changing impact for the local population Most advanced mini-grid in Africa sets a […]
Energy Access Ventures Partners with Lion’s Head to Launch E3 Low Carbon Economy Fund
7 January 2022 – Energy Access Partnership (EAV) has announced a partnership with Lion’s Head for its second Africa-focused venture capital fund, investing in clean-tech, new generation climate (resource) efficient businesses, and other related B2B and B2C businesses. The EAV team […]
EDFI ElectriFI and REPP is to Bring Energy Access to 20,000 People in Lesotho
6 January 2022 – EDFI ElectriFI, REPP, and 1PWR have reached financial close on Africa’s second largest project-financed mini-grid transaction. The equity-and-debt investment into the project vehicle, Sotho Minigrid Portfolio SPV, will fund the construction of a portfolio of 11 mini-grids […]
EDFI ElectriFI Finances Women Entrepreneurship in Clean Energy
4 January 2021 – EDFI ElectriFI (Electrification Financing Initiative) is investing 1.5 million euros in Fin’Elle, a subsidiary of the financial group Cofina. This financing will help remove barriers to female entrepreneurship in renewable energy in Ivory Coast. Ivorian women investing […]
Triple Jump is to Lead Germany’s New Clean Energy Foundation
27 December 2021 – Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German development agency, has appointed Triple Jump B.V., Persistent and GreenMax Capital Advisors to manage its new Foundation for Clean Energy and Energy Inclusion in Africa (CEI Africa). The new Foundation […]
Engie PowerCorner to deploy 22 solar mini-grids in Benin by 2023
5 December 2021 – Engie PowerCorner, a subsidiary of the French group Engie, has obtained a license from the Beninese Agency for Rural Electrification and Energy Management (ABERME) to install a solar mini-grid in Dohouè in southern Benin. The company […]
Turbulent Hydro won the Cleantech Hero Energy Award
8 December 2021 – The first Cleantech Hero Energy has been announced. The choice of the jury of experts went almost unanimously to Turbulent Hydro, which has developed high-tech small hydroelectric turbines that convert energy from rivers into electricity by […]