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Meet The Man Making Solar Energy A Viability in rural Senegal

News Agency of Nigeria Mar 1, 2018 0

Moustapha Sene is soft-spoken, but he is sure of what he's doing, and has proved a rare knack for seeing the obvious. A company his family started 25 years ago, Sahel Gaz, has been transforming free air from the atmosphere to produce oxygen…

World

ECOWAS, Israel sign $1 bn solar energy for member states

News Agency of Nigeria Jun 3, 2017

ECOWAS and Israel on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of one billion dollar investment to advance green energy power projects across 15 ECOWAS member states over the next four years. Remy Reinstein, Country Director,…

Metro

Energy expert tasks FG on solar for electricity

News Agency of Nigeria May 10, 2017

A solar technology expert, Mr Jude Abalaka says government should create the enabling environment for investments in solar energy to tackle the nation’s power deficit. Abalaka told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos…

World

China solar, wind to attract $780 bln investment by 2030 – research report

News Agency of Nigeria Apr 11, 2017

China’s wind and solar sectors could attract as much as 5.4 trillion yuan (782 billion dollars) in investment between 2016 and 2030 as the country tries to meet its renewable energy targets, according to a research report published on…

Metro

Rural Electrification: Agency to introduce renewable energy alternatives

News Agency of Nigeria Feb 19, 2017

Mr Sani Daura, the North-East Zonal Coordinator, Rural Electrification Agency (REA), has said that the agency will introduce the use of other renewable energy alternatives other than solar across the zone. Daura told the News Agency of…

Tech

Nigerian Company Develops Solar-Powered Food Storage System

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 18, 2016

The Nigerian Cold Hub Company has developed a solar-powered food storage design, Cold Hub, to empower small, medium and large scale farmers. The company introduced the design of the facility in a seminar titled, “Start-ups in Renewable…

Metro

Photos of Solar Eclipse From Various Parts Of Nigeria Surface Online

News Agency of Nigeria Sep 1, 2016 0

Today the 1st of September and there is a solar eclipse that has occurred that has been viewed across Africa in different countries. The rare event has drummed up a huge amount of buzz from people who are excited to see the natural…

Environment

Solar-powered plane set to take off Monday on Mediterranean crossing

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 12, 2016 0

Solar Impulse 2 has taken flight across the Mediterranean Sea from southern Spain to Cairo, on the penultimate leg of its around-the-world journey. The organisers of the plane's around-the-world journey said in Madrid that the aircraft…

Government

FG deepens effort toward cheap, quality solar panel

News Agency of Nigeria May 28, 2016 0

The management of NASENI Solar Energy Limited (NSEL) on Friday said it would intensify efforts to ensure that the cost of quality solar panel in the country became cheap. Mr Jafaru Mahmud, the acting Managing Director, NSEL, made this…