German energy start-up Ecoligo last year successfully raised enough investment through its crowdfunding platform to finance a 75 kW solar system for the Rift Valley Roses flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya. Now the Rift Valley business is aiming to install what Ecoligo claims would be the nation’s first floating solar project – Read more…
When Lucyline Wanja Silas installed a 12-volt solar power unit at her home to help her children study at night, little did she know it would become essential to her and her neighbours in Gakunga village, central Kenya, during the coronavirus pandemic. Ms. Wanja, a farmworker, said she had not Read more…
Scientists have developed an artificial leaf that absorbs sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel from water, an advance that may provide clean energy for powering eco-friendly cars in the future. The ultra-thin wireless device mimics plant leaves to produce energy using water and sunlight. “It is known that hydrogen generation from Read more…
Over the last two years, there has been a steady increase in the deployment of solar irrigation pumps in India. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, has already installed around 142,000 solar pumps by November 2017 and has a target of installing 1 million solar Read more…
INDORE: Narmada supply system at Jalood will soon be powered by solar energy as Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) plans to set up two floating solar power plants with capacity of 50 megawatt each. The solar plants will be set up at Jalood and Yeshwant Sagar through fund raised by releasing Read more…
New Delhi: Union Minister Raj Kumar Singh Wednesday pitched for creating a policy framework to further propagate the use of solar energy in the dairy cooperative network for benefit of farmers. The entire dairy chain from village-level milk pooling to product delivery is energy intensive. Extensive use of solar energy in dairy Read more…