Rwanda fires up Africa's 'biggest' solar plant
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250kW facility helps keeps the lights on Rwanda yesterday unveiled a 250-kilowatt solar plant which ups the nation's 'leccy-producing capacity to 50 megawatts, Reuters reports.â¦
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One of Africa's biggest HIV/Aids training centres for health professionals launches in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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A new energy organisation for Africa tasked with coordinating policy for the resource-rich continent was set to be launched Sunday at a meeting of African Union energy ministers, organisers said.
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A push into the solar sector could benefit the company.
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KANANGA, Congo  - From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30 years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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Payback time for the unlucky, oil-free desert? DLD08 A series of solar energy power stations in the Negev could supply all of Israel's power needs - or, if you wanted to be really ambitious, you could supply all of the world's electricity needs with the aid of slightly under 10 per cent of the Sahara. So says Professor David Faiman of Israel's Ben-Gurion University, man with a plan and current proprietor of the largest solar energy dish in the world.â¦
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The story of Baiji power station, which can produce more electricity than any plant in Iraq, helps explain why power generation remains one of the most vexing reconstruction challenges in the country.
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Rwanda launched the biggest phase yet of a scheme to try up to a million people suspected of involvement in its 1994 genocide, opening hearings Monday at traditional village courts around the country.
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Blog: The search giant shares its running tab of solar power production since turning on its panels.
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Huge new solar wings have been unfurled on the International Space Station.
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AFRICA/RWANDA - Lo sviluppo attraverso le tecnologie di informazione e comunicazione: in 5 anni da 16 a 135 milioni di cellulari in Africa, a Kigali un Convegno internazionale Kigali (Agenzia Fides)- ÂIn soli 10 anni, quello che una volta era un lusso e un privilegio, il telefono mobile, Ã¨ diventato una necessitÃ  di base nellÂAfrica urbana e ruraleÂ. CosÃ¬ il Presidente del Rwanda, Paul Kagame, ha sottolineato i progressi f...
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Depleting forests and coal reserves, compounded by the environmental cost of traditional energy sources, are forcing Africa to seriously consider going nuclear, experts say.
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Company intends to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from renewable energy forms for its operations by 2012.
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Australian engineers have created an electricity generator fuelled by decomposing bananas, and hope to build a full size fruit-fired power station.
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Aussie solar thermal specialist negotiating with utilities for big solar plants
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Scientists in South Africa unveiled the country's most powerful weapon yet in their fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis when they switched on a new supercomputer dedicated to scientific research this week.