Solar mini-grids offer clean-power hope to rural Africa By Patrick MARKEY Sabon Gida, Nigeria (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 Working as a nurse in her rural Nigerian village, Andat Datau faced more than her share of challenges. But delivering babies by torchlight was always hard. Off-grid for years, her Sabon Gida village relied on […]
Iraq inches toward solar-powered future By Salam FARAJ Hazar Merd, Iraq (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 In a small village in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, solar panels adorn most homes, part of a small but growing effort to harness the sun’s energy in Iraq, where electricity is scarce. “Solar covers all […]
Independent power company Globeleq and its project partners, energy developer Source Energia and Mozambican national power utility Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), have received formal notification from EDM (the offtaker) that commercial operations at the 19 MW Cuamba solar photovoltaic (PV) and 7 MWh energy storage plant began on September 12. In September, Mozambique President Filipe […]
Homogenizing strategy increases conversion efficiency of perovskite films by Staff Writers Hefei, China (SPX) Nov 02, 2023 In a study published in Nature, researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new and promising method of fabricating homogenized perovskite films for solar cells. […]
China lithium boom harming fragile Tibetan plateau: report by AFP Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2023 China’s booming electric vehicle industry is fuelling a lithium rush in the Tibetan plateau that risks damaging the troubled region’s fragile ecology and deepening rights violations, research published Wednesday said. China is the world’s biggest EV […]
Chinese Research Team Develops Fast-Charging Biohybrid Battery System by Simon Mansfield Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2023 The future of sustainable energy storage might involve tiny bacteria and formic acid, thanks to a groundbreaking study by Yong Jiang’s research team at the Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, China. Published in the journal […]
