With only 17 per cent of Rwanda having access to electricity, the government is seeking investors for multiple power projects. (Image source: Nick Mathew/Flickr)
Rwanda has set a target to produce 563MW of power by 2017 by tapping into hydro, peat, methane, solar and geothermal power resources, and is seeking investors for projects
Production is set to commence from June 2014 at the solar inverter manufacturing plant in Port Elizabeth. (Image source: Schwarzerkater/Flickr)
Powerway PV SA and Sungrow have announced that they will open a solar inverter manufacturing facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
The second phase of the project will focus on methane gas extraction. (Image source: Underclassrising/Flickr)
China Africa Sunlight Energy Limited has announced that it will build a 300MW power station at Gwayi in northern Zimbabwe by 2016
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 caldera at Ethiopias Rift Valley was formed thousands of years ago. (Image source: Bill Ward Brickpile/Flickr)
Icelands Reykjavik Geothermal will soon commence drilling to build a 500MW power plant on an imploded volcano in the Rift Valley, Ethiopia