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RWANDA GETS A SOLAR POWER BOOST

Gigawatt Global, a renewable energy company, has launched an 8.5 MW solar-power utility in Rwanda.

The 23.7 million dollar project is the first utility-scale solar project to be completed under the US-Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF) program.

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Tanzania: Electricity Production to Hit 75 Per Cent By 2020

TANZANIA needs to increase its electricity power production by 75.3 per cent before the year 2020, if the country is to be selfsufficient enough to meet the expected escalating demands being driven by massive rates of Rural-Urban Migration.

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Scatec Solar notches up second strong quarter as PV fleet grows

Scatec Solar has reported a second quarter of strong revenue growth off the back of a 54% increase in power production from its growing fleet of operational PV plants.

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MTN LAUNCHES AFRICA’S FIRST SOLAR COOLING SYSTEM

MTN South Africa has unveiled the continent’s first concentrating solar cooling system to power the firm’s data centres.

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