EDF, a global leader in low-carbon energies has taken a 23 percent stake in Bboxx Kenya to provide access to…
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Pan-African energy leasing company, Solarise Africa, has expanded into three new countries in Africa after signing a partnership agreement with…
Mali-based off-grid solar startup, Energy+ has raised over a million US dollars funding from a number of financiers. The consortium…
Kenyan energy company, KenGen, has announced its plans to roll out facilities for electric car charging systems in Kenya. The…
Khainza Energy Limited is committed to improving access to sustainable energy among low income populations by transforming organic materials…
PayGo Energy, a smart-meter pay-as-you-go LPG provider has raised US $1.43M in Series Seed debt and equity financing led by…
It seems the idea of crowdfunding is gradually taking its stay in Nigeria, as Nigerian crowdfunding sites have begun to…
UK’s Brighter World Energy, just raised GBP500,000 seed capital round led by ClearlySo, a European impact investment bank to help tackle…
East Africa-focused off-grid solar company BBOXX, has closed a $20 million Series C investment from co-investors MacKinnon, Bennett & Company (MKB), ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies and…
By 2040, the market for electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will have grown significantly with projections by McKinsey & Company…
India’s Orb Energy has raised $2 million in equity investments from the Netherland’s FMO to start its solar designs, manufacturing…
By Jacques Coetzee: staff reporter Ventureburn Things are looking bright for East Africa this season. At least that’s the case…
The Reserves-to-Production (R/P) ratio measures how long it would take for a natural resource to be depleted if production levels…
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has announced today that it has added 140MW to the national grid from the 280…
Canada’s Windiga Energy Inc., an independent power producer recently signed a $50-million contract to build a solar power plant in…
By Nguru Mugendi, Kenya has been dubbed the Sillicon Savannah; with good reason. From this small East African country, technologies…
Africa’s proven oil reserves have grown from 57 billion barrels in 1980 to 124 billion barrels in 2012 with an…
Less than 20 percent of Kenyan rural homes have access to electricity and are therefore forced to use fossil fuels…
Grid-scale electrical energy storage firm, Primus Power has secured $20 million in the first close of its Series C financing led…
Founded in Nairobi in 2012 by Lesley Silverthorn, Victoria Arch and Bryan Silverthorn, Angaza Design is an alternative energy startup…
Two Kenyan entrepreneurs, Jeff Wanjohi and James Njenga have developed Chaja, a micropower charger for phones, tablets, flashlights in a…
Rwanda’s Henri Nyakarundi founded ARED (African Renewable Energy Distributor) to give renewable energy solutions to the public and private sectors…