Brazil’s Acelen to Invest $2.4bn in Biofuels

Mubadala Capital’s Acelen has announced that it will invest $2.44bn (BRL12bn) over ten years to make biofuels in…

 13,000 Rural Households to be Solar Powered in Cameroon

The installation of 87 solar photovoltaic micro power plants in 200 locations without connection to the…

Tanzania Hydropower plant gets $300m from AfDB, France and EU

The African Development Bank, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Union (EU) have agreed…

IFC Funds OCP to Electrify Phosphate Production Using Solar PV in Morocco

To lower production costs and the carbon impact of its activities in Morocco, OCP Group (previously…

Nigeria Kicks-off Construction of First Solar-Cell Factory in West Africa

Last week, Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASRENI) started constructing the first solar-cell…

NSIA and Vitol to finance sustainable Development Through Carbon Credits in Nigeria

Vitol, a crude oil brokerage company, and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Nigeria’s sovereign wealth…

Construction Begins on 32 MW New Zealand’s Solar Farm

New Zealand renewables company Lodestone Energy’s plans to develop an initial suite of five large-scale solar…

Siemens Gamesa to Equip 166-MW Wind Park for ArcelorMittal in India

As part of a 975 MW 24/7 renewable energy complex in India, steel and mining giant…

Masdar Completes Stake Purchase in California’s Solar Facility

A 50% share in the Big Beau project, a 128 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in…

DWS Launches Hydropower IPP in South Africa

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is introducing the DWS Hydropower Independent Producer Program, which…