Infrastructure News

Video: Ted Talk - 21st Century School-in-a-Box for the Developing World: Jim Teicher

08/10/2012

In this talk, Jim provides examples of how innovative technology can be used to transform education in communities that face significant barriers in access to technological resources and even electricity. Jim is cofounder and...

Categories: Energy, ICT

Kenya: Power Line to Ethiopia Ready

02/10/2012

AllAfrica.com (East African Business Week): Nairobi — The African Development Fund will finance a multibillion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia to the tune of $348 million.

The line will see Kenya achieve...

Category: Energy

Interview: V. Bassant, Director of Cooperation & Infrastructure, Ministry of Finance & Economic Development, Mauritius

02/10/2012

African Development Bank: In this interview, Mr. Bassant underscores the important role of the AfDB in future infrastructure and energy projects in his country, following a brainstorming session organized by the Bank’s...

Category: Energy

South Africa's first utility-scale solar inverter factory opens

24/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News: International power equipment supplier 3W Power/AEG Power Solutions has officially opened a manufacturing facility, in the Western Cape, which has the capacity to produce 200 MW/year of solar...

Category: Energy

East Africa's Energy Boom

24/09/2012

AllAfrica.com: Gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania, and rising estimates for oil in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Puntland, are attracting global energy companies.

In July, European Commission president José Manuel...

Category: Energy

AfDB Approves US $348 Million in Funding for Kenya-Ethiopia Electricity Highway

21/09/2012

The Board of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday, September 20, US $348 million in funding for a US $1.26-billion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia.

Due for commissioning in November 2017,...

Category: Energy

Video: Temperature control company makes headway in Africa

19/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News: Provider of temporary power and temperature control services Aggreko Southern and East Africa, opened a new service centre in Walvis Bay, Namibia, last month.

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Category: Energy

New Methodology on Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Approved by UN Climate Change Board

19/09/2012

African Development Bank: In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new ...

Category: Energy

Building Africa's Green Economy

13/09/2012

Think Africa Press: Africa’s energy demand is forecast to dramatically expand as rapid urbanisation and economic growth push consumption to new heights. Yet the continent is currently plagued by poor power infrastructures and ...

Category: Energy

Nigeria: The Fears, Anxiety Of Sustaining Improvement In Power Supply

13/09/2012

Leadership: If all goes as planned, it is expected that by the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, the privatised generating companies would have been taken over by the new investors and expectedly, the Q2 and Q3 of 2013 the recovery ...

Categories: Energy, Water

Africa and Denmark Join Forces to Promote Investment in Sustainable Energy

13/09/2012

Justmeans.com: Denmark has a long history with Africa. From the 17th to 19th centuries, the relationship was primarily that of colonizer and colonized, as the small European nation established several trading posts and forts...

Category: Energy

Africa's Chance to Lead

12/09/2012

HydroWorld.com: Stupendous in magnitude, the Grand Inga project envisages 40 GW of hydropower capacity in the Inga valley, some 250 km west of Kinshasa on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Conceiving...

Categories: Energy, Water

Video: Energy in the Wind - a Moroccan wind farm produces green energy

12/09/2012

Deutsche Welle: As Morocco's economy grows, it needs more and more energy - some ten percent more each year. A new wind farm outside Tangier is now one of the country's biggest and most promising energy providers.

Morocco ...

Category: Energy

Finland to fund energy projects

12/09/2012

The Observer: Now that Uganda has entered the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) with other southern and East African countries, aiming at boosting the use of renewable energies, Ugandans with creative and innovative...

Category: Energy

Cameroon: Lom-Pangar Funds Wholly Mobilised

11/09/2012

AllAfrica.com (Cameroon Tribune): The European Investment Bank last Friday completed the FCFA 238 billion package needed for the project.

The total amount needed to execute the multibillion Lom-Pangar Hydroelectricity Dam at...

Categories: Water, Energy

Renewables firm secures more capital for projects in SA, Ireland, Chile and Canada

10/09/2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News: International renewable-energy company Mainstream Renewable Power – which advanced to the preferred-bidder stage for South African wind and solar projects involving a combined 238 MW of...

Category: Energy

Uganda: Demand for Electricity Up

06/09/2012

AllAfrica.com - Electricity demand has increased sharply a month after the multi-million dollar Bujagali Hydropower Project delivered 250 Mega Watts (MW) to national grid.

Until late July this year, power demand during peak...

Category: Energy

SADC power project on course

06/09/2012

The Botswana Gazette - Five investors have expressed interest in the development of the $223 million power transmission inter-connector project to link Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia (ZiZaBoNa).

According to a...

Category: Energy

Énergies renouvelables : la BAD a investi 800 millions de dollars au Maroc

05/09/2012

Jeune Afrique - Au premier semestre 2012, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a prêté quelques 800 millions de dollars au Maroc pour aider le pays à mener à bien son ambitieux plan d'investissement dans les énergies...

Category: Energy

Vodacom rolls out green base stations in Western Cape, South Africa

04/09/2012

Engineering News

Telecommunications group Vodacom has installed two hybrid base stations in the Vleiland Valley farming community in the Western Cape.

The community, which is situated between two mountains and previously ...

Categories: ICT, Energy

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