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Could The Transition To Electric Mobility On The African Continent Support Development Of Local Battery Manufacturing?

March 11, 2023 admin africa, batteries, battery manufacturing, chiina, clean transport, democratic republic of congo, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Madagascar, South Africa, tanzania, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:05:50 +0000

The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable. Already in several African countries, there are some […]

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Mozambique To Step Up Electricity Exports To Its Load-Shedding Stricken Neighbors

January 26, 2023 admin africa, clean power, hydroelectric, load shedding, mozambique, Solar energy, South Africa, wind energy, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:12:59 +0000

Mozambique currently has a low electrification rate with only 40% of its population having access to electricity. 36% of the population has access from the grid and 4% via off-grid projects. Mozambique wants to accelerate its access to electricity projects to meet its targets of universal access to electricity by 2030. This will be backed […]

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Zambia Increases Load-Shedding To 12 Hours a Day!

January 7, 2023 admin africa, clean power, hydroelectric, zambia

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 01:30:09 +0000

The water levels in Kariba Dam are dangerously low, mainly due to climate change-induced irregular rainfall patterns. The dam is shared between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam hosts hydropower generation plants for both countries. The installed generation capacity on the Zimbabwe side is 1,050 MW. On the Zambian side, the installed generation capacity is 1080 […]

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Zambia’s ZESCO Declares 1,000 MW Surplus in Power Generation — Is It Now Time To Accelerate EV Adoption?

July 21, 2022 admin africa, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, hydroelectric, zambia, zesco

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:50:59 +0000

Zambia’s vertically integrated electricity utility, ZESCO Limited, which generates, transmits, distributes, and supplies electricity in Zambia, has declared that the country now has a surplus generation capacity of approximately 1000 MW. Speaking during a high-level panel discussion at the ongoing Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA) meeting in Dakar, Senegal, ZESCO Managing Director Eng. […]

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How Can Africa Join The EV Revolution? (Video)

February 11, 2020 admin batteries, bmw and porsche, botswana, citroen c-zero, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, jaguar, Kenya, lithium-ion batteries, mercedes, nissan leaf, peugeot ion, renault zoe, south africa. audi, tanzania, the e-tron, the mitsubishi imiev, used ev inventory, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:00:30 +0000

A lot of the OEMs have not expressed any interest in bringing EVs to the rest of Africa anytime soon. With the majority of them struggling to meet demand in their home and traditional markets, it doesn’t look like Africa will be a priority anytime soon

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Botswana-Based Accite Holdings Brings Plant-Based Meat Revolution To Africa With Beyond Meat

January 22, 2020 admin africa’s nutrition, Agriculture, beyond burger, botswana, centre for sustainable systems, gaborone botswana, HEALTH, infinite foods, plant-based protein, South Africa, sub-saharan africa, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:40:35 +0000

Infinite Foods, a subsidiary of Botswana-based Accite Holdings, plans to tackle Africa’s nutrition problem in a more sustainable way by promoting plant-based food products across Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa’s expanding population and development will see many move into middle income status and with it increase their meat and dairy intake. Increased meat and dairy intake on a global scale will put more strain on the Earth’s resources which will struggle to sustain the projected surge in demand for red meat and milk using an animal-based system, which is inefficient

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The Different Faces Of Climate Change: The Zambia Drought

November 26, 2019 admin climate change, drought, Water, zambia

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:00:44 +0000

The little rainfall has led to low harvest and difficulties for cattle to graze, in particular in the Southern parts of Zambia where Philip lives. This has resulted in an increase in malnutrition. 2.3 million people in Zambia are now living in need of food assistance, UNICEF is reporting 40% of children under 5 years being stunted, and malnutrition is only expected to increase

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POWER Notebook: Ohio Gas Plant Project in Jeopardy if Nuclear Bill Passes

July 15, 2019 admin algeria, Business, China, Coal, Davis-Besse, fes, FirstEnergy, Gas, Hydro, hydropower, International, kafue gorge lower, Legislative, merchant, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Ohio, perry nuclear power plant, Renewables, scatec solar, sinohydro, Solar, zambia

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:39:26 +0000

New York City-based LS Power on July 15 said it would end a project to expand its natural gas-fired Troy power plant in Ohio if state lawmakers pass legislation to subsidize the state’s two nuclear power plants. LS Power in a news release Monday said, “Handouts to nuclear plants jeopardize the economics of the other […]

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