Infrastructure News
Kenya moves to improve sole refinery's efficiency
18/04/2012
Reuters - 17 April 2012
Kenya has taken steps to transform its sole oil refinery from a heavily-subsidised operation to improve its efficiency and bring down costs of its products, the energy ministry said on Tuesday.
In...
Malawi, Sustainable Energy, and the God of the Developing World
18/04/2012
Village - 17 April 2012
As Malawi elects a new and female President, Joyce Banda, following the controversial death of her 78-year old predecessor, Deirdre Mulrooney reflects on her recent visit there
So you think...
Categories: Energy
Five Renewable Sources of Energy for Farmers in Developing Countries
18/04/2012
WorldWatch Institute - 17 April 2012
According to the United Nations, access to reliable and sufficient sources of energy will be critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing poverty and hunger by...
Categories: Energy
Ghana may lose opportunities as an oil producing country due to power constraints
18/04/2012
GhanaWeb - 17 April 2012
Ghana might lose opportunities presented by her new potential as a major gas producing country in the West-African Sub-Region if she failed to resolve the current power challenges, Mr Goosie Tannoh, an...
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Is Morocco the Mediterranean's Green Energy Savior?
18/04/2012
Forbes - 18 April 2012
Amid the eager and often conflicting discussions about what it’s going to take to develop a real, tangible green economy in North Africa – one that makes the most of a seemingly endless supply of solar...
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Ghana Signs $1 Billion Loan With China for Natural Gas Project
17/04/2012
Bloomberg - 16 April 2012
Ghana signed a $1 billion lending agreement with China Development Bank Corp. as part of the biggest loan in the country’s history that Vice President John Dramani Mahama said would provide hundreds of...
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South Africa: Impact studies for nuclear plants near completion
16/04/2012
Business Report - 16 April 2012
THE final environmental impact reports for a nuclear power station with a capacity of 4 000 megawatts would be completed and submitted to the Department of Environmental Affairs late this year...
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South Africa: Any new French bid will push local content above Nuclear 1 levels, Areva chief says
16/04/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - 16 April 2012
The levels of local content in the French-led bid to build proposed new nuclear energy capacity in South Africa will be superior to those outlined in an earlier Nuclear 1 bid...
Categories: Energy
Three ways Africans are making cheap do-it-yourself electricity
13/04/2012
Christian Science Monitor - 12 April 2012
Across Africa, simple carbon-free technologies and local creative partnerships have the electrical juices flowing, expanding grid access and prosperity.
In countries like Kenya and...
Categories: Energy
Nairobi Menengai Geothermal Project (video)
13/04/2012
ABNDigital - 12 April 2012
The Menengai Geothermal Project is being launched in Nairobi today. The development of the field will set the stage for investments that will help meet Kenya's rapidly increasing demand for power,...
Categories: Energy
South Africa keen to move ahead with plans to unlock 'northern mineral belt'
13/04/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - 13 April 2012
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Plans for unlocking South Africa's coal- and platinum-rich northern mineral belt through transport, water and energy interventions, were...
Africa to spend $72bn a year on infrastructure, but shortfall persists
12/04/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - 11 April 2012
Africa is able to spend about $72-billion a year on infrastructure, but there remains a $480-billion shortfall over the next decade, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
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Out of Africa (and Elsewhere): More Fossil Fuels
12/04/2012
New York Times - April 10, 2012
THE world’s largest energy companies have big plans for Mozambique.
Until recently, the East African country was better known for its long civil war, and had few energy resources...
Categories: Energy
Africa, Asia & Elsewhere: Alternative Energy - Farmers Foil Utilities Using Cell Phones to Access Solar
12/04/2012
Bloomberg - April 12, 2012
On a January evening, Anand is shelling betel nuts by the light of an electric lamp in Halliberu, his village in India’s Karnataka state.
As his friends gather on the lamp-lit porch to swap stories,...
Portugal deal on Mozambique's Cahora Bassa dam
10/04/2012
BBC news - 9 April 2012
Portugal has agreed to give up its remaining stake in a giant hydroelectric dam in Mozambique, ending a long-running dispute.
Portugal, the former colonial power, had retained control of the Cahora...
Une plate-forme de concertation sur le secteur de l'électricité en Afrique centrale en gestation
10/04/2012
Media Terre - 9 avril 2012
Le premier forum international de l'électricité du Cameroun (Finelec) s'est déroulé à Yaoundé du 28 mars au 1er Avril 2012, avec pour objectif de faire le point sur la libéralisation du secteur de...
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South Africa: Suzlon Energy To Secure 138 MW Wind Energy Project From Cennergi
10/04/2012
NASDAQ - 9 April 2012
(RTTNews.com) - Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd. said it had been selected as the preferred supplier by Cennergi (Pty) Ltd., for a 138 MW wind energy project currently under development in...
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Renewable energy substation Kenya
09/04/2012
Siemens - April 4, 2012
Nairobi’s power utility company, The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (KETRACO) will be erecting a substation approximately 80kms north west of Nairobi and along the Mai Mahiu-Narok ...
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Egypt is losing its grip on the Nile
09/04/2012
Political uncertainty in post-revolution Egypt is allowing other Nile states to wrest control of the world’s longest river.
Neuf millions USD pour améliorer la production d’électricité en Gambie
05/04/2012
La Gambie va recevoir un prêt de neuf millions de dollars de la Banque arabe pour le développement économique en Afrique (BADEA) pour contribuer au financement du projet d'infrastructures de production...
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