Off-grid power rollout to boost rural telephony

Businessam StaffMarch 12, 2018

Electricity

Telecommunications services across Nigeria, especially rural areas, would improve in the near term as plans are underway to rollout a massive infrastructure for rural cellphone telephony system across Nigeria by Raeanna Nigeria Limited, an indigenous telecoms infrastructure company that creates affordable voice and data solutions. The company, according to its Canadian-based technical partner, Clear Blue […]

Microsoft to buy solar power in Singapore in first renewable deal in Asia

Businessam StaffMarch 1, 2018

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it will buy solar power from the Sunseap Group in Singapore, the technology company’s first renewable energy deal in Asia. Microsoft, according to report by Reuters, will purchase 100 percent of the electricity generated from Sunseap’s 60 megawatt-peak solar power project for 20 years for its Singapore data operations, the […]

Opportunities seen in diversifying Nigeria’s renewable energy sources

Phillip IsakpaFebruary 5, 2018

The major differences between fossil fuel and renewables as sources of energy can be found in two words: reliability and exhaustibility. Fossil fuels are controllable and readily available, but not inexhaustible. However, renewable energy, such as biomass, sun, wind, and water, is somewhat unreliable because we don’t control the energy to be generated, but they […]

Africa’s richest man, Dangote, staking $150m on solar to ramp up industrial activities in Nigeria’s Kano

January 23, 2018

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has his eyes set on reviving business activities in Nigeria’s ancient city of Kano with an investment of $150 million in a solar power plant to generate electricity that will power industries and ramp up production, it has emerged from different sources who provided information to Businessamlive for this story. […]

Saudi Arabia plans up to $7bn of renewable energy projects this year

Businessam StaffJanuary 16, 2018

Saudi Arabia expects to start up to $7 billion of renewable energy projects this year, with solar plants leading the way. Tenders will be issued this year for eight projects totaling 4.125 gigawatts of capacity, Turki Mohammed Al Shehri, head of the kingdom’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office, said Tuesday in an interview in Abu […]

Demand for remote renewable energy systems propels power storage market in Sub Saharan Africa, Frost & Sullivan

Businessam StaffJanuary 12, 2018

The drive to integrate renewable energy into the grid whilst at the same time supply constant, reliable power for industry activities is one of the key factors driving the power storage market in Sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly, more residential consumers and rural communities are relying on RE technologies to meet their daily power requirements. While demand […]

Solar-powered cool rooms making big difference, fighting waste in Africa

Businessam StaffJanuary 4, 2018

Food waste in Africa is a serious issue. Half of all the fruit and vegetables produced there are thrown away, even though millions of people across the continent are going hungry. Intermittent power supplies and poor storage facilities mean that staple foods – among them cereals, roots, and tubers – are too often lost after […]

International Solar Alliance seeks cheap energy via global bids

Businessam StaffDecember 6, 2017

The International Solar Alliance, championed by India and France, came into effect Wednesday, aiming to promote affordable sun-powered electricity to its members through global tenders and cheap financing. The inter-governmental agency, which has been ratified by 19 countries and has 46 signatories to its framework agreement, aims to mobilize $1 trillion of low-cost financing for […]