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17 Dec '20

FG, seven firms sign MoU to power rural communities

December 17, 2020 / December 17, 2020 / / 0

December 17, 2020 The Federal Government on Wednesday signed an Output-Based Fund grant Memorandum of Understanding with seven private companies for the deployment of solar home systems to power rural communities. It was learned that parties in the agreement would also provide electricity to micro, small and medium enterprises located in areas categorised as unserved […]

24 Mar '19

Africa Embraces an $8 Billion Solar Market for Going Off-Grid

March 24, 2019 / March 24, 2019 / / 0

  Why you should care By Sophia Akram From Kenya and Tanzania to Nigeria and Ivory Coast, off-grid African communities are embracing solar energy. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Tanzania, where 80 percent of the population has no reliable access to electricity, is planning to import biomass as fuel from Ethiopia this year […]