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AREF plans to develop renewable energy projects in the sub-Saharan region and hopes to increase funding to atleast half a billion dollars by the end of 2014. (Image source: MJM Foodie/Flickr)

The Africa Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) has raised US$100mn to invest in small and medium-sized power projects in sub-Saharan Africa

The West African island nation has set a goal of meeting 50 per cent of its electricity needs through renewable energy by 2020. (Image source: USDAgov/Flickr)

Cape Verde has announced that it will receive US$75.5mn from the European Commission (EC) for the development of renewable energy sources in the island country

Pico-solar lights can reduce the need for families in rural Africa to rely on burning fuels such as kerosene for light. (Image source: SolarAid)

Google has agreed to fund a US$650,000 two-year Randomised Control Trial study (RCT) into the impact of solar lights on poverty alleviation in Africa

Powerway would develop the plant in partnership with local renewables company Mobility Holdings. (Image source: Patrick Moore/sxc.hu)

Powerway South Africa, a subsidiary of the Chinese Powerway Renewable Energy Company, plans to invest US$160mn to construct a 100MW solar power plant in Zimbabwe

GE will provide operation and maintenance services for the turbines for 10 years. (Image source: David Laporte/Flickr)

General Electric (GE) has been awarded a contract to supply 38 wind turbines of 1.6 MW each, for the upcoming Kinangop wind farm in Kenya

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