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Interesting Insights From Uganda’s 2024/2025 National Budget

June 23, 2024 admin africa, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, hydroelectric, kiira motors corporation, Uganda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:40:12 +0000

Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija, recently delivered the country’s 2024/2025 national budget. There were some very interesting insights in there that give us a good look into Uganda’s electricity generation landscape as well as the current state and plans to grow the electric mobility ecosystem. … [continued]

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Plug-in Electric Vehicles in USA Consumed More Electricity than the Whole of Uganda in 2023!

May 22, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, Uganda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 21:03:03 +0000

Light-duty vehicles (LDV) in the United States consumed approximately 7,596 GWh of electricity in 2023, almost five times the consumption in 2018 according to a U.S. Energy Information Administration Electric Power Monthly report. The report also adds that U.S. sales of electric vehicles (EVs) have increased in recent years, making … [continued]

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1,000th Electric Motorcycle Sold Via GOGO & Watu Partnership in Uganda

February 12, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, motorcycles + scooters, Uganda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:45:02 +0000

GOGO, formerly known as BODAWERK, and its asset financing partner Watu have just celebrated a key milestone. The 1,000th electric … [continued]

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International Solar Alliance & United Nations Launch Solar Agriculture Irrigation Program

May 22, 2023 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaics, Benin, clean power, democratic republic of congo, Mali, Niger, republic of sudan, senegal, Solar energy, South Sudan, togo, tuvalu, Uganda, United Nations, united nations development program

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 17:10:46 +0000

Solar plus agriculture has been one of my kicks lately. It’s a combo made in heaven, and we should see much more of it in the coming decade. I recently conducted a whole podcast on the topic that, if you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend: We’ve got more news on the solar […]

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Aceleron Deploys Its First BATLAB, A Solar-Powered Battery Servicing Container, In Uganda

February 12, 2023 admin africa, batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, Solar energy, Uganda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:30:52 +0000

As the world transitions to electric mobility and variable renewables such as wind and solar backed by energy storage systems, batteries are increasingly in demand. Dr Amrit Chandan, co-founder of Aceleron, predicts that the number of batteries that will need to be disposed of by 2040 would fill Wembley Stadium 23 times every single year, […]

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How The Zayed Sustainable Prize Makes A Difference — 4 Interviews

January 12, 2020 admin Abu Dhabi, abu dhabi sustainability week, africa, batteries, bboxx, bboxx cook, clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, ecosoftt, Energy Storage, felix brooks-church, FOOD, grid, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, liberia, light every birth, lithium-ion batteries, mansoor hamayun, masdar, Off The Grid, rooftop solar, rwanda, sanku, Sierra Leone, Solar energy, solar panels, solar suitcases, tanzania, UAE, Uganda, Water, Water Management, we care solar, zayed sustainability award, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:57:39 +0000

I thought I would go back to the Zayed Sustainability Prize winners from last year to check what has changed and how the prize has impacted their operations

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Strong E-Mobility Focus At The Recent Lake Basin Region Innovation & Investment Week In Kisumu

November 25, 2019 admin africa, batteries, bicycles, boats, bodawerk, cargo bicycles, cargo bike, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, e-boda electric motorcycle., e-mobility, e-mobility conference, electric bikes, electric boat, electric boats, electric cars, electric mobility space, Electric vehicles, evs in kenya., global co2 emissions, grid, investment, kampala, kisumu, lake victoria. kenya, lithium-ion batteries, motorcycles + scooters, nairobi, powering agriculture, siemens stiftung foundation, the deutsche gesellschaft für internationale zusammenarbeit gmbh (giz), the united nations environment programme (unep), torqeedo, Uganda, wetu

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:20:15 +0000

Siemens Stiftung Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Powering Agriculture, and Wetu recently organized an electric mobility conference in Kisumu, Kenya

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East African Countries Seek The Right Energy Mix: The Heavy Task Of Choosing One’s Path

August 22, 2019 admin clean power, d.light, east africa, geothermal energy, Kenya, kimani chege, m-kopa, Solar energy, tanzania, Uganda, wind energy

Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:00:59 +0000

Kenya taps most of its energy needs from dams built between 1970 and early the ’80s along Tana River, the country’s biggest river. Several other dams built on other rivers bring the total installed hydropower capacity to 743 MW, which makes up more than half of the country’s power sources