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• Published on 22 Apr. 2013 • Category : EnergySouth African Swayed by WindpowerA South African man has found an innovative way to gain access to electricity.Ricardo Fortune could not get the state-owned company to connect electricity to his house in Cape Town, so he built a turbine.Now Fortune uses his turbine to harness the wind.Watch it here...

• Published on 09 Apr. 2013 • Category : EnergyEthiopian capital to burn waste, hopes for energy bonanzaEthiopia’s capital will mine its largest landfill to produce energy, as part of a bid to eliminate trash and supplement the country’s hydropower supply, which could be vulnerable to droughts and increasingly extreme weather.Away from the gleaming skyscrapers that dot the city’s major roads, many of Addis Ababa’s neighbourhoods are dirty and strewn with rubbish. One of the reasons is the lack of capacity at the city’s dump sites.But under an agreement signed at the beginning this year between a British company and the Ethiopian government, there are plans to turn waste at the city’s(...)

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : EnergyLagos creating energy from wasteThe first phase of the pilot project was carried out in the Lekki Local Council Development Area of Lagos. A group, Community Conservation and Development Initiatives (CCDI), has commenced energy generation from waste in Lagos. This was contained in a statement signed by the CCDI’s Programme Director, Kofo Adeleke, on Tuesday. The statement said that the first phase of the pilot project was carried out in the Lekki Local Council Development Area of the State. It said that the project, which would be replicated in other states, was tagged: “Energy Generation from Wast(...)

• Published on 13 Mar. 2013 • Category : Energy Rwanda gets U.S. $60 Million for Sustainable EnergyThe World Bank yesterday signed a financing agreement with Rwanda, which will see the global bank boosting the country's energy rollout programme with $60 million (approx Rwf38bn). The money is an additional financing loan agreement under the International Development Association (IDA) and will go to the Electricity Access Roll-out Programme (EARP). The 30-year loan agreement was signed between the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Amb. Claver Gatete and Carolyn Turk, the World Bank country manager. Read more...

• Published on 07 Mar. 2013 • Category : EnergyBrazil tips Dar es Salaam on gas economyVast discoveries of gas along the Indian Ocean are expected to boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to over 20 per cent sooner or later helping the country to realize a brighter future provided there are excellent policies in place. However, the increased investments in gas and the benefits accruied should be reflected not only in economic growth but also in the improvement of people's livelihoods. This scenario will save the nation from skirmishes like the incident that occurred in Mtwara Region a few weeks ago. This was said on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam by the B(...)