Category: Alternative & Renewable Energy

South Africa’s first biomass project under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has reached financial close. The 25MW Ngodwana Energy Biomass Project, was one of the 27 power purchase agreements (PPAs) under rounds 3.5 and 4 of the REIPPPP, signed by South African Energy Minister Jeff Radebe last week. Read more: Wind…

Stakeholders in Africa’s electricity market, on Friday launched the Africa Mini-grid Developers Association (AMDA), pledging to leverage the potentials of mini-grid renewable electricity sources to deliver power to at least 140 million Africans. AMDA which plans to be continent-wide with chapters currently in Kenya and Tanzania, and new ones expected to open in Nigeria –…

SOME solar energy consumers on Wednesday, attributed the slow pace at embracing the technology to the high cost of installation materials. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, that the rising cost of PhotoVoltaic (PV) panels, inverters and batteries was a major challenge to the installation of the technology. According to them,…

“The grid”. For decades, it has conjured visions of huge centralized fossil fuel power plants, and thousands of kilometers of criss-crossing transmission lines. But a revolution in distributed renewable energy in the past 10 years is ointing Africa on a different path — one that has not only resulted in the recent surge of more…

Energy Worth with Agency Report Some German experts have concluded and launched a “PV-Calculator”. The tool compares costs of solar power with the currently existing diesel generation costs for a specific planned PV project and generates an individual economic approximation for the considered solar investment. It is also handy, quickly generates numbered results and has…

Energy Worth with Agency Reports The Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai, on Wednesday, inaugurated Blue Camel Renewable Solar Power Assembly Plant and Renewable Energy Training Academy in Kaduna. The governor said at the launch in Kaduna that the plant was important to the Kaduna State Government “because we believe that renewable energy and solar…

The Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnya Onu has said the Federal government is vigorously exploring alternative sources of energy for the country, Daily Trust has reported. Dr Onu said this when the executives of International Energy Charter Mission Team on Energy Investment Risk Assessment paid a courtesy call on him in his office…

Energy Worth with Agency Report Nigeria is yet to ratify the alliance framework of International Solar Alliance (ISA), as developing countries who have signed and ratified the alliance framework stand to benefit from French pledges of $861.5 million. France says the money will go into funding solar projects in developing countries, according to President Emmanuel…

Energy Worth with Agency Report Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has reiterated the need for Africa to intensify efforts in improving transmission grid for renewable energy to be effectively developed on the continent. Fashola stated this during a a two-day conference on Renewable Energy Development, organised by the Centre for Petroleum,…

The National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa (NUMSA) recently released a strongly worded statement expressing disappointment in an earlier statement released by Greenpeace. The Greenpeace statement questioned why NUMSA interdicted the minister of energy to stop the signing off on 27 Independent Power Producers (IPP) projects. NUMSA were not granted the interdict and the…