With much fanfare, South Australia’s State Premier Jay Weatherill, recently announced that a 150-megawatt solar thermal power plant is set to be constructed in the state beginning in 2018. Weatherill described the plant, known as the Aurora Solar Energy Project, as “The biggest of its kind in the world” according to Australia’s ABC News. Expected […]
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), in its Africa 2030: Roadmap for a Renewable Energy Future report, acknowledges that “Africa faces an enormous energy challenge.” Energy demand across the continent has soared as a result of its growing population and economic growth. Despite this positive economic growth IRENA estimates that Africa’s renewable energy “Transition would […]
Liberia recently became the first country in the world to pledge to Light Every Birth. The pledge was made at the launch of the Light Every Birth global campaign to support healthy childbirth with affordable, accessible and clean solar lighting and electricity. In honouring its pledge Liberia will strive to equip the country’s 300-plus health […]
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) recently launched a new online, and free to take, course called Understanding Renewable Energy. It forms part of its #YALIGoesGreen imitative which aims to help raise awareness and support the increased use of renewable energy sources around the world. YALI believes that “Developing the best practices and technologies to […]
The government of Taiwan has embarked on an ambitious plan to embrace the renewable energy revolution. As part of President Tsai Ing-wen’s plan to phase out nuclear power plants and reduce the use of fossil fuels, the government intends to invest as much as $56.6 billion, and to raise the percentage of renewable energy in […]
Following the success of the first competitive auction held in July 2015 in Zambia, in which private organisations, known as Independent Power Producers (IPPs), were able to submit bids for the chance to develop, build and operate solar power plants across the country, a second auction was recently held. Like the first one, the second […]
Researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Germany have developed solar-powered milk cooling refrigerators for use by smallholder dairy farmers across Africa. This is in response to such farmers suffering from low production, and poor quality milk, due to a lack of cooling systems and animal feeds. The solar-powered cooler is an ice based system […]
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, is an internet based platform, whose “Foremost mission is to inform [their] readers about the use of Renewable Energy worldwide and, in the process, assist you with decision making when it comes to anything related to Renewable Energy.” The website was started in the year 1999 by a group of professionals who worked in […]
Co-chair Sustainable Development Commission – United Nations In recent years, climate change has been the subject of a great deal of political controversy. As scientific knowledge has grown, this debate is moving away from whether humans are causing warming and toward questions of how best to respond. Signs that the Earth is warming are recorded […]
It is often the case that in situations where modern technology meets culture, religion and tradition then it is the case that the latter factors win out. Not so in Morocco, where as part of a climate change and renewable energy national consciousness-raising initiative, the country’s government recently announced it is set to crate 600 […]
