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• Turning Rwanda's rivers into renewable energy
  Jan 31, 2012 - bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the business ventures that African entrepreneurs tend to avoid - perhaps in order to avoid a shock - is electricity.
  
  
• South Africa Signs Major Energy Agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo
  Nov 16, 2011 - John Daly - oilprice.com
  
  Africa has for the last couple of decades found itself between a rock and a hard place on energy issues, seeing foreigners race in to exploit hydrocarbon reserves (Nigeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, etc.) while soaring population rates and a lack of infrastructure investment have left many nation’s populations bereft of reliable and inexpensive energy resources.
  
  
• Sahara Solar Project to Present First Plant Design in 2012
  Nov 3, 2011 - Stefan Nicola - bloomberg.com
  
  The Sahara solar initiative backed by German turbine maker Siemens AG (SIE) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) will sketch out plans in 2012 for its first power plant, a 600 million-euro ($800 million) station in Morocco, its project manager said.
  
  
• Abu Dhabi hosts Africa meeting on renewable energy
  Oct. 7, 2011 - Michael Casey - boston.com
  
  African governments should consider investing in renewable energies like wind, solar and hydro power to help feed the continent's growing energy demands and combat threats of climate change, the head of a new international energy agency said Friday.
  
  
• Power Interconnection Project Costly but Needed
  Aug 9, 2011 - George Mhango - ipsnews.net
  
  BLANTYRE, Malawi , Jun 27, 2011 (IPS) - In Malawi's administrative and commercial capitals, Lilongwe and Blantyre, two things are clear, especially at night: blackouts and the sound of generators in various workplaces.
  
  
• How the DRC’s Inga project could solve much of Africa’s power problems
  Jul 21, 2011 - Claude Harding - howwemadeitinafrica.com
  
  Companies in Africa are severely handicapped by poor power supply.
  
  
• Can North Africa Light Up Europe With Concentrated Solar Power?
  Jul 21, 2011 - Lisa Friedman - nytimes.com
  
  HAMBURG, Germany -- Twenty-five years after Gerhard Knies conceived of powering Europe with the Sahara Desert's sun, the North Africa Solar project has grown into something considerably more than a mere mirage, but it's still less than a reality.
  
  
• Ethiopia Plans to Start Exporting Power to Djibouti This Month
  May 22, 2011 - William Davison - bloomberg.com
  
  Ethiopia expects to begin exporting electricity to Djibouti this month after completing a project connecting its power grid to the neighboring country, an Ethiopian Electric Power Corp. official said.
  
  
• Tunisia still in running for Desertec role despite turmoil
  May 21, 2011 - globserver.com
  
  Tunisia remains a leading candidate to host one of the first renewables projects built by the Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII), despite the North African country’s recent revolution.
  
  
• centrotherm, Kinetics Germany to build Africa’s largest module production facility
  May 21, 2011 - Chris Whitmore - pv-tech.org
  
  centrotherm photovoltaics and Kinetics Germany have signed an agreement with Société Nationale de l'Electricité et du Gaz (Sonelgaz) to build an integrated solar module manufacturing facility in Rouiba, Algeria. When completed, the 43,000-square-metre site, located 30 km east of Algiers, will be home to Africa’s largest solar module factory and have an annual production capacity of around 116MW.
  
  
• Botswana explores alternative energy sources
  May 15, 2011 - Xinhua - energycentral.com
  
  Botswana plans to develop renewable energy to tackle the increasing demand of energy that has recently been outsourcing supply in the Southern African country.
  
  
• Morocco Plans 2011 Solar Award As Investor Confidence Returns - Minister
  May 04, 2011 - Doug Cameron - wsj.com
  
  Morocco plans to award a landmark contract by year end to build one of the world's largest solar power facilities, the country's industry minister said Monday.
  
  
• Egypt's First Solar-Thermal Plant goes into Operation in Kuraymat
  Jan 10, 2011 - Worldofrenewables.com
  
  In Kuraymat, roughly 100 kilometers south of Cairo, a major solar-thermal power plant is going into operation for the first time in Egypt.
  
  
• Sahara Desert Project Aims to Power Half the World by 2050
  Dec 14, 2010 - Lin Edwards - Physorg.com
  
  A joint project by universities in Algeria and Japan is planning to turn the Sahara desert, the largest desert in the world, into a breeding ground for solar power plants that could supply half the world’s electrical energy requirements by 2050.
  
  
  
• Congo Says Talks with BHP on Inga Are 'Very Advanced'
  Nov 17, 2010 - SF Gate
  
  The Democratic Republic of Congo's government is in "very advanced" talks with BHP Billiton Ltd. on the Inga 3 hydropower project, as the world's biggest mining company seeks electricity for a possible aluminum smelter.
  
  
  
• Country 'Has Enough Wind for 35 Percent of Electricity Supply'
  Aug 24, 2010 - Business Day/All Africa Global Media - Energy Central
  
  A University of Cape Town doctoral study has found that SA has more than enough wind to provide a consistent feed of electricity into the national grid.
  
  
• Wind Industry Wants 25 Percent of Energy to Be Renewable
  May 24, 2010 - Business Day - All Africa Global Media - Energy Central
  
  The South African wind industry has called on the government to set an ambitious 25% renewable energy contribution to electricity consumption by 2025.
  
  
• South Africa's Eskom to build 100MW CSP power plant with World Bank funds
  Apr 9, 2010 - Mark Osborne - pv-tech.org
  
  As part of a US$3.75 billion loan from the World Bank to help South Africa achieve a reliable electricity supply, the country’s electricity provider, Eskom is to build a 100MW concentrated solar (CSP) power project with storage in Upington, South Africa.
  
  
• Developing Nations Eye Renewable Energy
  Mar 30, 2010 - Lauren Poole - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Post-copenhagen targets for renewable energy show developing countries looking to strengthen their renewable energy portfolios.
  
  
• 100% Renewable Electricity – A roadmap to 2050 for Europe and North Africa
  Mar 26, 2010 - Price Waterhouse Coopers
  
  The study prepared by the European and international climate experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the European Climate Forum, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the International Institute for Applied System Analysis, examines the potential for powering Europe and North Africa with renewable electricity exclusively by 2050
  
  
• Phaesun builds solar systems in Africa
  Mar 16, 2010 - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  German Phaesun and Ikratos Africa, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, are constructing 10 solar power plants in the Koudougou region, to be finished at the end of March 2010.
  
  
• Geothermal Firm on Course to Supply 280 MW
  Mar 15, 2010 - The Nation - All Africa Global Media
  
  Kenya's Geothermal Development Company (GDC) is drilling for steam which will be used to generate an additional 280 MW to the national grid, the east African nation's energy minister said on Monday.
  
  
• Solar Power Vastly Underrated in Region
  Mar 11, 2010 - The Namibian/All Africa Global Media
  
  THE southern African region has the highest potential in the world for the use of Solar Thermal Power (STP).
  
  
• Global Climate Battle Plays Out In World Bank
  Mar 8, 2010 - Lesley Wroughton - Reuters
  
  The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should pay for clean energy.
  
  
• 'Renewable Energy Achievable in Ten Years'
  Mar 1, 2010 - All Africa Global Media - Vanguard
  
  The Managing Director of Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya, has stressed the need for Nigeria to focus on the green economy and renewable energy in its bid to join global forces to save a world that is threatened by climate change and global warming.
  
  
• 'Renewable Energy Achievable in Ten Years'
  Mar 1, 2010 - All Africa Global Media - Vanguard
  
  The Managing Director of Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya, has stressed the need for Nigeria to focus on the green economy and renewable energy in its bid to join global forces to save a world that is threatened by climate change and global warming.
  
  
• Dam Critics Won't Go Away
  Feb 6, 2010 - Inter Press Service - All Africa Global Media
  
  Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
  
  
• Regional Power Plan to Cut Costs
  Feb 01, 2010 - The Nation/All Africa Global Media
  
  The cost of electricity is expected to come down drastically in the next few years, after installation of several inter-border grid lines is complete.
  
  
• Fund commits €10m for clean energy in southern Africa
  Jan 27, 2010 - renewable energy focus
  
  The Global Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) will commit the funds to the ‘Evolution One Fund’ that is dedicated to clean energy investment in Southern Africa.
  
  
• Utah playground power project expanding in Africa
  Jan 10, 2010 - AP
  
  A Utah engineer's project to convert the energy of children's play into electricity to light up schools continues to expand in the West African nation of Ghana. Empower Playgrounds, Inc., builds special merry-go-rounds that generate power for lights in schools in villages where electricity is scarce or not found at all.
  
  
• Project Focus: Morocco invites bids for 500MW plant: first in country
  Jan 7, 2010 - Emma Hughes - PV-tech.org
  
  Morocco will be inviting bids for the construction of its 500MW solar power station due to be complete at the end of February 2010. The project is estimated to cost US$9 billion and will be the first solar power station in the country according to Reuters.
  
  
• Solar Panel Project to Light Up Schools
  Jan 5, 2010 - Business Daily - All Africa Global Media
  
  Two private companies have been commissioned to install solar panels in 117 schools and health centres in arid and semi arid regions in a move geared to reduce Kenya's reliance on hydro-generated electricity and lower the cost of energy to poor communities.
  
  
• Country to Set Up $2 Billion Energy Fund
  Nov 30, 2009 - The Nation - All Africa Global Media
  
  Kenya will with the support of donors set up a $2 billion (Sh150 billion) revolving fund to lend those investing in climate-friendly green electricity generating projects. The Ministry of Finance said World Bank, French Development Agency, KfW of German and African Development Bank had agreed to help the government set up the fund.
  
  
• Ethiopia to build 10 hydroelectric projects
  Nov 19, 2009 - Hydroworld.com
  
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia 11/19/09 (PennWell) --

  The government of Ethiopia said it will build 10 hydroelectric projects over the next decade at a cost of US$10 billion, according to Nazret.com, an online news service in Ethiopia.

• World Bank: Africa needs more hydropower
  Nov 17, 2009 - Hydroworld.com
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. 11/17/09 (PennWell) --

  A new study from World Bank shows that almost half of the $93 billion needed to improve Africa’s infrastructure must be spent on the construction of new power supplies.

• Africa to receive 1.1 billion dollars in new financing for climate action
  Nov 05, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  African efforts to invest in clean energy and prepare for the devastating consequences of climate change have received a boost with six countries set to receive 1.1 billion dollars in new financing for climate action, the World Bank said on Thursday
  
  
• Mapping wind resources in South Africa
  Nov 3, 2009 - Renewable energy focus.com
  
  Risø DTU has produced a detailed map of the wind resources in South Africa showing the best locations for wind turbines and is a prerequisite for funding wind farms.
  
  
• Biofuels - New Report Brings Greater Clarity to Burning Issue
  Oct 16, 2009 - UNEP
  
  New International Panel Launches Wide-Ranging Assessment on Environmental Pros and Cons of Crop-Based Fuels.
  
  
• World bank pledges support for DRC's Grand Inga dam
  Sept 11, 2009 - Bank Information Center
  
  Observers, however, are skeptical that the proposed project presents a solution to Africa's energy problems and whether the millions of Africans without access to electricity stand to benefit.
  
  
• Lush land dries up, withering Kenya's hopes
  Sept 7, 2009 - Jeffrey Gettleman - The New York Times
  
  The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled in front of him.
  
  
• Africa aims to harness its huge hydropower potential
  Aug 26, 2009 - Southern African News Features/All Africa Global Media
  
  Energy experts from Africa will meet in September for the 21st Session of the African Hydro Symposium to explore ways of harnessing hydropower.
  
  
• NGO Develops Mini Hydro-Power Stations
  Aug 26, 2009 - The Herald/All Africa Global Media
  
  Three regional countries are set to benefit from mini-hydro-power stations being developed by a local non-governmental organisation.
  
  
• Kenya to build Africa's biggest windfarm
  Aug 21, 2009 - evwind
  
  A 300 megawatt windfarm, coined the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, is being developed in Kenya. A total of 365 wind turbines are slated for installation.
  
  
• Firm to Light up The Country With Solar Power
  Aug 20, 2009 - Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media
  
  Private Networks Nigeria Limited (PNN), a leading Pan-African technology service, has announced plans and ability to provide 100% visibility in Nigeria through the application of solar powered lights which can adequately address the persistent epileptic power supply in the country.
  
  
• African Sun May Light Up European Homes
  Jul 29, 2009 - Inter Press Service/All Africa Global Media
  
  Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the North African Maghreb region.
  
  
• Nigerian president approves wind power generation project
  Jul 14, 2009 -- BBC Monitoring
  
  In an effort to further diversify Nigeria's sources of power generation, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has given approval for the commencement of an electricity generation project from wind.
  
  
• Country Set to Tap Power From Renewable Energy
  Jul 6, 2009 - The Nation/All Africa Global Media
  
  Kenya is fast-tracking its plan to boost renewable energy as hydro power increasingly becomes unreliable due to erratic rains.
  
  
• European solar power from African deserts?
  Jun 18, 2009 - James Kanter - The New York Times
  
  Germany has become a global leader in solar energy by building up a substantial industry at home. Can the country now repeat the feat in North Africa?
  
  
• Massive European solar project set for launch
  Jun 16, 2009 - Spiegel Online International
  
  A German-led consortium wants to fund an international solar-energy plan to the tune of €400 billion. The idea is to gather solar heat in North Africa and send the electricity to Europe. If it works, it would be the largest green-energy project in the world.
  
  
• African business urged to invest in green economy
  Jun 4, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  The African business community must invest in the green economy if it is to withstand advances in other parts of the world, an official from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) said here on Thursday.
  
  
• Environment group calls to suspend funding of Ethiopia's dam
  May 8, 2009- McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Sudan Tribune
  
  An international environmental group urged the African Development Bank (AfDB) to reconsider their commitment to fund the ongoing construction of a dam in southwest Ethiopia saying it would affect the ecosystems and livelihoods in the region.
  
  
• South Africa Introduces Aggressive Feed-in Tariffs
  Apr 9, 2009 - Paul Gipe
  
  South Africa's National Energy Regulator (NERSA) announced March 31, 2009 the introduction of a system of feed-in tariffs designed to produce 10 TWh of electricity per year by 2013.
  
  
• Delivering Green Hydroelectric Power-to-Go in Rwanda
  Nov 25, 2008 - Larry Greenemeier
  
  Dartmouth students bring light to once-dark homes in a remote Rwandan village
  
  
• Geothermal Key to Local Power Needs
  Oct 9, 2008 - The Nation/All Africa Global Media
  
  Kenya's huge potential in geothermal energy remains untapped even as the country grapples with high electricity costs.
  
  
• Country Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy Target
  Aug 27, 2008 - Leadership/All Africa Global Media
  
  Nigeria has set an ambitious target of moving 20 per cent of the country to off-grid renewable energy sources by 2012.
  
  
• Energy Security in Africa with Renewable Energy
  Jul, 2008 - Preben Maegaard - World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE)
  
  More than any other continent, Africa needs an energy revolution and independence from the international fossil fuel economy; a change to renewable energy and energy autonomy is paramount for survival. Africa depends largely on the import of fossil fuels to meet a significant and growing part of its modern energy needs, which has created perverse effects on the economy and lives of Africans. Renewable energy is the only viable alternative that has the potential, when properly managed, to improve quality of life on a national and continental scale.
  
  
• Kenya calls for affordable electricity in Africa
  Jun 24, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  The Kenyan government on Tuesday urged stakeholders in power generation and distribution to come up with quick solutions to the challenge of ensuring that many people in Africa have access to electricity at affordable prices.
  
  
• South Africa switches on 1st wind farm amid electricity crisis
  May 23, 2008 - Clare Nullis - Canadian Business Online

  South Africa's energy minister inaugurated the country's first wind farm Friday, acknowledging that the government has done too little to harness the gales that lash its coastline and the sun that scorches its interior.

• Kenya launches renewable energy blueprint
  Jun 10, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  The Kenyan government has launched a blue print for promoting Kenya's renewable energy sources while at the same time conserving non-renewable energy sources.
  
  
• Rural Areas Investing in Renewable Energy
  May 27, 2008 -- Business Daily/All Africa Global Media The United Nations International Development Organization (Unido) is calling on communities without access to electricity to submit renewable energy production proposals for funding.
  
  
• Zesco to Reconnect Power Line to Zim
  May 12, 2008 - The Times of Zambia - All Africa Global Media
  
  ZESCO will connect the 330 kilovolts inter-connectivity power line from Kariba Power Station to Zimbabwe as a way to ensure reliability.
  
  
• German lighting firm aims to build solar power hubs
  May 8, 2008 - IPS/GIN
  
  Lighting industry entrepreneurs are hoping that alternative devices such as solar-powered LED lights will eventually replace the smoky kerosene lamps that keep the darkness at bay in many of Africa's towns and villages.
  
  
• Geothermal Energy Could End Power Crisis - World Bank
  Apr 22, 2008 - Rwanda News - All Africa Global Media
  
  Rwanda should seriously consider exploration of geothermal resources because available data indicates significant potential that could solve the energy crisis and electrify the whole country, according to a new World Bank study.
  
  
• Africa plans largest hydroelectric dam in world
  Apr 21, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  A plan to build the largest and most powerful hydroelectric dam in the world is being discussed in London, BBC reported Monday.
  
  
• Summary Report on the International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa (pdf)
  Apr 16-18,2008 - Renewable Energy in Africa Bulletin
  
  The International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa was held at Le Meridien President Hotel in Dakar, Senegal, from 16-18 April 2008. The Conference focused on the theme “making renewable energy markets work for Africa: policies, industries and finance for scaling up,” and was jointly organized by the Government of Senegal, the African Union (AU), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). It brought together 500 participants, including: high-level representatives and experts in energy and industry from African countries; representatives from the African Union Commission (AUC) and African Regional Economic Communities; and representatives from UN agencies, bilateral organizations, the private sector, as well as regional and international non-governmental organizations.
  
  
• Environmentally Friendly Wind Generator Available for Rural Africa
  Apr 16, 2008 - Voice of America News
  
  An environmentally friendly source of energy is now available in Africa. A wind generator is on display in Cape Town, South Africa and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was created by the California-based group "Pac-Wind," which was founded to meet the need for generator systems that are practical, quiet and reliable and can operate in low wind.
  
  
• How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power
  Dec 2, 2007 - The Observer
  
  £A 5bn solar power plan, backed by a Jordanian prince, could provide the EU with a sixth of its electricity needs - and cut carbon emissions
  Europe is considering plans to spend more than £5bn on a string of giant solar power stations along the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
  
  
• Mozambique rural areas to receive solar panels
  Nov 27, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Mozambique is to launch a project to provide solar panels to a number of districts which have not been covered by the country's power grid in 2008, local media AIM reported on Tuesday.
  
  
• Clean Power from Desert (pdf)
  Nov 26, 2007 - The Club of Rome
  
  The Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC) is an initiative of The Club of Rome, the Hamburg Climate Protection Foundation and the National Energy Research Center of Jordan (NERC) in the field of renewable forms of energy. Since it was founded in 2003, it has developed the DESERTEC Concept for energy, water and climate security in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA), promoting cooperation between countries of the sun-belt and the technology belt. Now TREC is making this concept a reality in cooperation with people in politics, industry and the world of finance.
  
  
• UNEP poised to stir green energy revolution in E. Africa
  Nov 8, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  NAIROBI - A U.N.-backed initiative is set to harvest environment-friendly hydroelectric power from millions of tea and sugar cane growers across East Africa, U.N. officials said Thursday.
  
  
• Germany Looks to North Africa's Untapped Solar Thermal Potential
  Sep 27, 2007 - Jane Burgermeister - RenewableEnergyAccess.com
  
  Vienna, Austria - Flabeg has recently developed a mirror that can reflect 93 percent of the sun's rays. A study by the German Aerospace Center estimated that harnessing the sun's energy falling on just 6,000 square kilometers of desert in North Africa would supply energy equivalent to the entire oil production of the Middle East of 9 billion barrels a year.
  
  
• World Bank Launches Lighting Initiative for Africa
  Sep 9, 2007 - Planet Ark
  
  The World Bank launched an plan on Wednesday to provide inexpensive, safe and cleaner lighting to 250 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who lack access to electricity. The project is designed to replace costly and inefficient fuel-based lighting sources, such as kerosene lamps, that pose fire hazards and cause pollution.
  
  
• Mali, Mauritania And Senegal Receive Assistance for Regional Hydroelectric Development
  Aug 26, 2007 - World Bank/All Africa Global Media
  
  Washington, DC - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved three International Development Association (IDA) credits*, each for US$25 million equivalent to the Republic of Mali, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Republic of Senegal under the US$ 350 million adaptable program lending (APL) facility that supports the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) initiative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
  
  
• Zambia to go for solar energy
  Aug 13, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  The Zambian government intends to make solar energy an integral part of its rural electrification program, a government official has said.
  
  
• Ethiopia's geothermal project comes up with encouraging results
  Jul 23, 2007 -- Xinhua
  
  A geothermal project built in Dubti and Tendaho areas of north Ethiopia's Afar State, has come up with encouraging results, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said Monday.
  
  
• Giant dam projects aim to transform African power supplies
  Jun 19, 2007 - Sarah J. Wachter - International Herald Tribune
  
  PARIS: Maps As the world's political leaders debate ways to alleviate poverty in Africa, industrialists are moving ahead with their own designs for pan-African development - including the building of the world's largest hydroelectric dam at a bend in the Congo River, between Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Atlantic Ocean.
  
  
• Over 6,000 Ethiopia's rural towns to be electrified next year: minister
  May 14, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  ADDIS ABABAEthiopia's Ministry of Mines and Energy said Monday it has plans to electrify over 6,000 rural towns next year.
  
  
• Zambia Needs $2.1bn for Hydropower Generation
  Feb 9, 2007 All Africa Global Media
  
  Parliament heard yesterday that Zambia needs US$2.1 billion investment to expand hydropower generation and transmission to avoid a looming power shortage in the next five years.
  
  
• African solar farms to solve energy crisis?
  Dec 5, 2006 - James Murray - Green Business News
  
  It appears the UK government is not the only one busy commissioning reports on combating climate change, the German government has now got in on the act with two major new study's on the viability of a leftfield plan that could deliver clean energy to the whole of Europe within the next forty years.
  
  
• A Study: Deserts offer cheap source of energy = 1/3 the price of oil
  Nov 21, 2006 - Asia Wind
  
  SAHARA sunshine could provide Europe with clean and cheap energy, according to a study for the German government. Experts said solar energy from north Africa could help to reduce emissions from European power stations by 70 per cent by 2050 as well as providing energy at a cost equivalent to a $20 barrel of oil - about a third of the current price.
  
  
• Namibia: Country On Verge of Policy Breakthrough On Renewable Energy
  Nov 21, 2006 Brigitte Weidlich Windhoek The Namibian
  
  NAMIBIA will soon have its own regulatory framework and technical standards for the use of appliances powered by renewable energies such as solar or wind power.
  
  
• Mali, Mauritina And Senegal Receive Assistance for Regional Hydroelectric Development.
  
  The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved three International Development Association (IDA) credits*, each for US$25 million equivalent to the Republic of Mali, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Republic of Senegal under the US$ 350 million adaptable program lending (APL) facility that supports the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) initiative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
  
  
• Giant Congo hydroelectric project is a 'betrayal'
  Sep 2, 2006 - by Fred Pearce
  
  The heart of darkness could soon be lighting up Africa. There are plans to build the world's largest hydroelectric project on the Congo river and connect it to a continent-wide electricity grid.
  
  
• Mali Turns to Windpower
  Aug 23, 2006 - Appropriate Technology
  
  Mali is one of the poorest countries in Africa. Its electrification rate is just 9 per cent nationwide and less than one per cent in rural regions. In 2001 the country's total electricity generation capacity was 140 MW, with half accounted for by hydroelectric power plants.
  
  
• Uganda: Micro-Hydro Sites Identified
  
  THE Japanese delegation to Uganda on August 3 concluded a one-week fact finding mission on potential sites for generating electricity for rural communities.
  
  
• Notice the sunshine in the desert
  Jun 21, 2006 - Sanjay suri - IPSnews
  
  A recent United Nations report suggests that the Sahara desert could capture enough solar energy to eventually supply all of the world's electricity needs. The report also points to some of the threats such as declining water resources which threaten delicate desert ecosystems.
  
  
• Enlightening a Continent in the Dark– Prospects for Hydropower Development in Africa
  Oct 27-29, 2004 - Dr. Michel Claude Lokolo - United Nations Symposium on Hydropower and Sustainable Development
  
  

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