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50RE internationalRE100 swells rank, admits Dutch biotech firm into 100% clean energy aficionadas group
Dutch Biotechnology Company, Corbion has become the 101st business to join RE100, a leadership campaign led by the Climate Group in partnership...
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42NewsAnxious P’Harcourt Disco fears FG’s university power scheme would cut its income
Fears that the ‘energizing education’ program initiated by the federal government to power 37 of its universities and teaching hospitals using solar and...
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38RE internationalShell retains commitment to $1bn annual investment in renewables
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has reiterated its commitment to spend as much as $1 billion a year on its New Energies division,...
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304NewsNigeria’s GVE to invest N85m in restoring electricity to 220 Akwa Ibom households
*50kW capacity solar PV mini grid project ready in 8 weeks Green Village Electricity (GVE) Projects could in about 8 weeks complete...
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110NewsNigeria’s 10mw windfarm to feed first electricity into grid in Q4 2017
Nigeria’s 10 megawatts windfarm which has repeatedly overshot its completion and energy delivery timeline would now achieve both milestones in the last...
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124NewsAfDB’s department launches $5m climate change finance package
The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), housed in the Climate Change and Green Growth Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has...
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102NewsNigeria extends presidential solar home system to 81 northern villages
Following from its launch of the presidential initiative on solar homes systems at Wuna, a rural community on the outskirt of Abuja...
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40NewsAfDB leads key parties to roundtable on green energy financing in W’Africa
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has initiated a roundtable to discuss processes that could lead to the launch of a program of...
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166NewsNigeria’s bureaucracies may force 14 solar IPPs to reorganise funding structure
*W’Bank’s partial risk guarantee may take 9 more months to come *NBET identifies irregularity in security bond posting, flags down affected project...
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110RE-talkPromoting a sustainable energy policy environment in Nigeria
By Akachukwu Okafor Sometimes I wish that Nigeria’s power sector challenges are solved so that I will have less to write on, but...
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67RE internationalFrance to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles in 23 years to meet Paris climate pact
To meet its ambitious plans in the Paris climate accord, France has announced it will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles...
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61EditorialSpeed up the diversification timetable, the clock is restless
Conversations in government circles about diversifying Nigeria’s power supply sources have not been convincing, and this is despite the grave risk further...
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71RE internationalShell continues inroad into renewables, acquires MP2 Energy
Subject to regulatory approvals, the energy subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Energy North America (SENA) could complete its acquisition of MP2...
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120InterviewsNigeria: Off grid energy sources now profiting from the challenges of orthodox sources – Adeuyi
Ahead of the 2017 edition of the annual Nigeria Energy Forum (NEF) in Lagos Nigeria, Chair and Technical Lead of NEF, Dr....
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93EditorialWill NERC’s mini-grid regulation jumpstart Nigeria’s DRE market?
Stakeholders are excited about the mini grid regulation recently approved and signed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), which is good....
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342InterviewsMeasured choices keep Nigeria behind Kenya, others in continent’s RE race – Akinmoladun
Sidney Akinmoladun, is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of PaySolar247™, a Nigerian distributed renewable energy (DRE) firm. He recently shared...
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78RE internationalIn support of renewables, France to stop licenses for oil exploration
France has said it will stop granting licenses for oil and gas exploration soon as part of its transition towards environmentally-friendly energy....
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179NewsNigeria’s REA pens power production deal with 8 universities, one teaching hospital
*Parliament approves N9.5bn in 2017 budget for projects Nigeria’s federal government’s ‘Energizing Education Programme’ has kicked off with the decision of the...
