Deploying renewable energy is crucial for Africa, not only to achieve its climate targets, but also to meet its socio-economic and sustainable development objectives. However, despite being endowed with abundant renewable energy and critical material resources, the continent’s energy transition has yet to gain significant momentum. New innovative, partnership models, like APRA, the Accelerated Partnership […]
Collaboration, Innovation key to Africa’s Clean Energy Transition
WHILE Africa possesses significant renewable energy potential, there is need for more action from the continent’s leaders and partners to harness clean power for development, growth and resilience, a renewable energy expert has said. Addressing delegates at the Investment Forum for the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (APRA), in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Renewable […]
Africa’s renewable energy future: inaugural Apra forum unlocks investment
In an ambitious effort to unlock funding and accelerate renewable energy development across the continent, the first-ever Investment Forum for Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (Apra) held in Nairobi, Kenya, and convened yesterday. This landmark forum aims to bolster the continent’s contribution to global green energy investment as it receives less than 2% of […]
Realizing the need for transformed Renewables in Africa.
The APRA Investment Forum (IF) for renewable energy being held in Nairobi, Kenya from 14 to 16th, 2024, saw the teaming together of stakeholders drawn across the African continent and its neighbors in the discussion aimed at accelerating progress towards energy renewables. Under the secretariat of IRENA, The forum came about the world’s pressing need […]
Driving Africa’s Renewable Energy Revolution: Insights from Kenya’s Energy Secretary Briefing at IRENA Assembly
Right after the 14th IRENA assembly, which was held from the 17th to the 18th of April in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, His Excellency, Mr. David Chirchir, the cabinet secretary in charge of Energy and Petroleum of Kenya, engaged in a media briefing alongside host Nicole Bockstaller, the head of communications at IRENA, and […]
G7 Countries Task IRENA to Monitor Group’s Renewable Energy Progress
Today, G7 leaders tasked the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) with tracking and monitoring the group’s collective contribution toward the global renewable triple target by 2030. The target was established by the UAE Consensus last November at COP28, aligning global climate ambitions with IRENA’s 1.5°C pathway, mapped out by the Agency’s World Energy Transitions Outlook. […]
Energy Poverty slows Progress in some Parts of Malawi
Patricia Mussa of Kambalame Village in Machinga District endures long walks in searchof firewood. She climbs Chikala Hills with her three girls during weekends to meet the cooking needsof her family of seven. They leave home around 2am only to return around 4 pm with bulky bundles on their heads. “The walks keep lengthening as […]
Nigeria can leverage on Renewables to Industrialize: Rep. Sam Onuigbo
Sponsor of the Nigeria Climate Change Act and former Member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Sam Onuigbo, has stated that renewable energy can provide the energy needed by the country to fully industrialize. Onuigbo emphasized this during a series of interventions he made during the 14th International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, the IRENA […]
Private Sector calls on Governments to Fund Renewable Energy Projects
The Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) has called on governments to complement the efforts of the private sector by funding renewable energy projects to achieve the target of 11000 gigawatts of installed clean energy by 2030. This year marks exactly 6 years until 2030 but only less than half of the targeted amount of gigawatts of […]
Africa needs $1 trillion to fund ambitious single electricity market
Africa needed to raise $1 trillion to achieve Africa Union’s flagship project for an African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM) by 2040, Amani Abou-Zeid, the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the AU Commission, said yesterday. Amani Abou-Zeid was talking on the sidelines of the 14th Assembly of International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) convention last week […]