Renewable Energy

Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency has inaugurated a 581kWp solar mini-grid in Kwara’s Oke-Oyi community, powering about 13,000 residents and spurring new businesses.

KEY POINTS The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, NGC, and Shell Trinidad and Tobago have finalised commercial agreements that will pave the way for natural gas from the …

Nigeria will soon begin producing solar panels locally through a partnership with LONGi to cut renewable energy costs, the Energy Commission of Nigeria says.

Solar farms overtook coal in July to become China’s biggest source of installed power capacity, state media said, though solar still trails coal in generation.

KEY POINTS South Africa’s mining companies are rapidly increasing their investment in renewable energy as they seek to reduce dependence on the country’s state-owned electricity utility, Eskom, lower operating costs …

Inspired Evolution has launched Zafiri, a $176 million blended finance vehicle to expand electricity access across sub-Saharan Africa through distributed renewable energy.

ECOWAS has set a 48 percent renewable energy target for 2030 as over 190 million West Africans remain without electricity access, a regional parliament meeting in Dakar heard.

KEY POINTS Nigeria’s telecom operators spend hundreds of billions of naira every year keeping their networks alive on diesel. MTN Nigeria has decided it is done subsidizing that problem. The …

ECOWAS Parliament has opened a five-day meeting in Dakar to develop strategies for expanding renewable energy and rural electrification across West Africa.

Nigeria has 53 large-scale solar projects worth $11 billion currently underway as the country targets 209,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2050.