NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), urged all stakeholders across Africa to make commitments, as part of the Action Agenda, on how to achieve sustainable energy for all by [...]

UK Energy storage technology development company Highview Power Storage has built and tested the world’s first Liquid Air Energy Storage plant; and it could be the solution for South Africa’s energy problems. Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) takes excess electricity from the grid at wrong times, such as during the night, and uses it to [...]

Johannesburg, South Africa, February 16, 2012 –(PR.com)– Eskom has confirmed that its CEO Brian Dames will deliver the opening address at the annual African Utility Week conference and exhibition on 22 May in Johannesburg. The event, which runs from 21-24 May at the Nasrec Expo Centre, which will once again gather together some 5000 power [...]

SOLAR POWER BUILDING INTERGRATED PHOTO VOLTAIC BIPV IN KENYA Kenya receives 4 to 6 KW per day of solar power. Source http://www.google.co.ke/ (download .pdf file) Assuming a m2 of solar panel in Kenya can produce approximately 2KW per day assuming 10 hours of daylight since Kenya is right in the middle of the equator. Source [...]

Africa Renewables Deal of the Year: Addax BioEnergy (Sierra Leone) Standard Bank Group was a co-arranger for 20-million euros of the 267-million-euro deal to finance the development of a 10,000ha sugarcane plantation, an ethanol distillery producing 82000m3 of ethanol per year and a 32MW cogeneration power plant in Sierra Leone. Source: Standard Bank

LUXEMBOURG and DONGYING, China, February 16, 2012/PRNewswire via African Press Organization (APO)/ — CNPV Solar Power SA, a public limited liability company organized under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, today confirmed their position within the international, leading group of solar module providers, with [...]

Facilities to Produce a Combined Output of 280,000kW CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SPX Corporation today announced that SPX Heat Transfer Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply four advanced direct contact condensers (ADCC’s) to what will eventually be the largest geothermal power plant ever constructed in Kenya. SPX’s ADCC’s will serve [...]