The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has unveiled an US$8.5mn grant facility to support adoption and diversification of renewable energy solutions in the Somalia and Somaliland
Energy
APICORP: MENA has great potential for low and zero-carbon sources of energy
The MENA region has great potential to emerge as a major blue and green hydrogen-exporting region due to the combination of low-cost gas resources and low-cost renewable energy, according to the MENA Power Investment Outlook 2020-2024 by Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP)
SSAB to supply 6,000 tonnes of steel for PV solar parks in Angola
SSAB Borlänge and SSAB Arendal are to supply steel for the construction of several photovoltaic solar parks in Angola
Data sharing programme to unlock operational insights about wind turbines
A new data sharing programme will allow turbine owners to exchange operational performance data and reduce the data dependency on OEMs, improve analytics and develop a transparent global performance benchmark
AfDB approves US$43mn loan to finance Madagascar's power transmission project
The African Development Bank will finance the second phase of the nations power project, which will help connect the Sahofika Hydropower Plant onto the national grid, suppling eight million people with affordable and clean energy