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Why This 48-Year-Old Woman Salma Okonkwo Is Building Ghana’s Biggest Solar Farm

Why This 48-Year-Old Woman Salma Okonkwo Is Building Ghana’s Biggest Solar Farm

For more than a decade, one 48-year-old entrepreneur in Ghana has been quietly building up a multimillion-dollar oil and gas outfit called UBI Group. Salma Okonkwo is a rare woman to head up an energy company in Africa. “I don’t stop when the door is being shut. I find a way to make it work,” […]

Ethiopia seeks new company to complete dam construction

Ethiopia seeks new company to complete dam construction

Ethiopia has cancelled a contract awarded to Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), run by the Ethiopian defence ministry, due to repeated scheduled work delays, news agencies reported yesterday. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the government would award the contract to another company which has not been named. METEC was the contractor for the electromechanical and […]

Hanergy kick-starts its CSR Project, ‘Lighting Africa’ in Tanzania

Hanergy kick-starts its CSR Project, ‘Lighting Africa’ in Tanzania

Hanergy Thin-Film Power Group (www.Hanergy.com), a pioneering multinational clean energy company, launched the “Lighting Africa” project at its first stop Tanzania on July 18th together with China Foundation for Peace and Development and Tanzania-China Friendship Association by promising to donate the first 100 Humbrellas this October. “Lighting Africa” is a philanthropic project initiated by Hanergy […]

Energy Giant Eskom Posts U.S.$170 Million Loss

Energy Giant Eskom Posts U.S.$170 Million Loss

Eskom suffered a net loss of R2.3bn in 2018, compared with a R0.9bn profit the previous year, the state-owned power producer revealed at its financial results presentation on Monday. CEO Phakamani Hadebe said the poor results were compounded by allegations of corruption and mismanagement, challenges of governance and negative investor sentiment. The power utility said […]

In Hunt for Clean Jet Fuel, South Africa Swaps Tobacco for Weeds

In Hunt for Clean Jet Fuel, South Africa Swaps Tobacco for Weeds

When a South African Airways Boeing 737 took off from O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg two years ago, headed for Cape Town, it was powered by an unusual fuel: tobacco. South Africa hasn’t yet repeated the jet biofuel feat, but in an effort to cut its climate-changing emissions and promote greener power the country’s […]

Why Waiakea Water is the Best

Why Waiakea Water is the Best

Many people are starting to make the switch from their traditional tap water with bottled water and for many reasons too. Some like it because of the accessibility, while others like it for the taste and quality. Whatever the case may be, bottled water can be a safer alternative to water that you get from […]

Mozambique Severe Drought Affects Electricity Generation

Mozambique Severe Drought Affects Electricity Generation

The severe drought that has affected parts of Mozambique and the Southern Africa region in two last years has contributed to reducing electricity generation at the Cahora Bassa dam (HCB), on the Zambezi river, in the western Mozambican province of Tete. Nelson Beete, executive director of Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates […]

Trouble for Olusegun Obasanjo As Nigerian Govt Revisits Probe of $16bn Power Spending

Trouble for Olusegun Obasanjo As Nigerian Govt Revisits Probe of $16bn Power Spending

Abuja — There are indications that former President Olusegun Obasanjo may be in for serious trouble, as the federal government plans to begin a fresh probe of how $16billion earmarked for power projects during his administration was spent. This is coming just as President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday challenged Obasanjo to show Nigerians the electricity he […]

Off-grid Solar set to triple in Africa

Off-grid Solar set to triple in Africa

Off- grid solar will bring basic electricity services to almost 70 million more people in Asia and sub Saharan Africa A new report has confirmed that Solar is now the fastest growing energy source in the world, and is making a major impact in Africa. The International Energy Agency’s 2017 report on renewables forecasts that […]

African national oil companies (NOCs) need to evolve for the future in light of a challenging and disruptive environment: PwC analysis

African national oil companies (NOCs) need to evolve for the future in light of a challenging and disruptive environment: PwC analysis

NOCs across Africa have an enormous opportunity to secure a more sustainable future by transforming into “national energy companies” (‘NECs’), escaping the economic trap of a lower oil price and embracing the disruptive forces unleashed by climate change and a lowcarbon world. A new era of lower oil prices is challenging business models that have […]

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