The World Bank this week approved $297 million in loans to Morocco to help finance the Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project, taking a historic step toward realizing one of the first large-scale plants of this kind in North Africa to exploit the region’s vast solar energy resources. With this approval from the Bank’s Board [...]
Pilot efforts will mark first transformational solar and wind power projects in Africa The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved $250 million in funding for the Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project (ERSP) to help implement the pioneering and innovative Upington concentrating solar power and Sere wind power plants in South Africa. The US$250 [...]
On Friday 4th November the IPP Procurement Programme in South Africa will see the deadline for the first round of bids. The IPP programme has been designed to contribute towards the target of 3 725 megawatts of renewable energy and towards socio-economic and environmentally sustainable growth. The vision is to start and stimulate the renewable industry [...]
The Nigerian Million March Project has announced its intention to organize peaceful marches in major cities around the world to call attention to the Nigerian government’s failure to provide sufficient and reliable electricity to its 150 million citizens, despite the country being Africa’s largest oil exporter. The marches, scheduled for 24 October, are planned for [...]
Earlier this month, SGS attended the inauguration of a groundbreaking project Gemasolar, the new concentrated solar power plant, located in Fuentes Andalucia, Spain as the world’s leading inspection, testing, certification and verification company involved in the construction, commissioning and operation phase of the facility. Gemasolar, owned by Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s [...]
Kenyan solar power projects are designed to be available to individual consumers in rural areas, but funding remains scarce despite the market’s potential. Importing a finished solar pack capable of generating electricity with of a solar panel, batteries and an inverter costs $800 along with a $40 governmental inspection, but importing the components to manufacture [...]
In recent months South Africa has seen a dramatic change in itsenergy policy as the Department of Energy, NERSA and Eskom have takensteps to move to a renewable energy future. On November 4th theIndependent Power Producer bidding process for the first 200MW of CSPwill close, leaving many anxious developers waiting until COP17 to findout if [...]
Forget green energy: while most nations are concerned about carbon reduction, South Africa seems more worried about how quickly it can build coal-fired power plants. The top two new generation projects in the country are coal-based. One, the six-turbine Medupi power station near Lephalale in Limpopo province, is scheduled for completion in 2015, and will [...]
To develop a technical‐economic feasibility study for a 200 MW thermosolar power plant is the aim of the project that has been launched this week in Botswana. The technical leader of the project will be the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) with the participation of Nixus Consulting, Ynfiniti and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Managed by Botswana [...]
Lacking of a definitive Government energy policy in South Africa has been a key barrier hindering progress in the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market in the country. The CSP Today’s South Africa 3 part guide’ states: “The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), published in mid-2010, identified South Africa’s 2013 renewables target of 10,000 GWh of energy [...]
At first glance South Africa’s decision to invite bids for 200 MW of CSP is not doing the industry many favours. On closer inspection, however, there could be a sizeable opportunity. This month 800-plus green power professionals gathered at South Africa’s largest conference centre, the Gallagher Estate, to hear about the country’s forthcoming renewable energy [...]
Photovoltaic plants to facilitate solar power and support push for renewables in energy mix Zurich, Switzerland. ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will construct two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants for Eskom, South Africa’s national electricity provider. The pilot plants, each of one hectare, will be located on greenfield sites adjacent to the [...]
Off-Grid solar power system produces clean energy for the municipality Tsumkwe. For the first time in three years, the small community had an around-the-clock electricity supply. juwi Solar GmbH – a subsidiary of the international project developer juwi headquartered in Germany – has realized another rural electrification project in Northern Namibia. The hybrid solar system [...]
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