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Africa poised for solar lighting boom
As many as 120 million households in Africa will be living off-grid by 2015, creating one of the world's largest markets for portable solar lighting in the next five years, according to a report. 'Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid — Overview of an Emerging Market' was published by Lighting Africa, a joint International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank initiative that ...
By SciDev.Net
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Solar energy viable option for Timor-Leste, says UN
A just concluded three-year pilot project has shown that solar power can be an affordable and sustainable alternative energy source for the people of Timor-Leste, according to a senior United Nations official heading up the programme. The solar project, just one of many initiatives carried out by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affair (UNDESA) in the tiny South East Asian nation, aimed ...
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The Unreasonable Institute empowers the public to choose the next wave of high-impact social entrepreneurs
Starting Jan. 20, 45 social entrepreneurs will showcase their ventures in an online platform called the Unreasonable Finalist Marketplace (http://marketplace.unreasonableinstitute.org/). For 50 days, people from around the world are invited to vote with their wallets on the most viable ventures. The first 25 of the 45 finalists to raise $8,000 in the Marketplace will earn access to the highly ...
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Farmers trade crops for solar lighting in the Solomons
Using crops in a unique barter system, a new microfinance project in the Solomon Islands has successfully implemented a solar lighting finance scheme, enabling communities to trade crops for much needed access to light. A team of renewable energy developers working for SOPAC, the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, and funded by REEEP, recently completed the first year pilot that ...
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`Innovation cooperation` to meet climate challenges
Climate talks must move from technology transfer to 'innovation cooperation' to develop and deploy technologies effectively, says Ambuj Sagar. For developing countries, the challenges of climate change come on top of existing — and urgent — sustainable development needs. For example, more than a billion people worldwide, mostly in the developing world, are malnourished. Almost 2.5 billion ...
By SciDev.Net
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Sun-harvesting textiles power remote villages
Portable solar-powered lights that combine nanotechnology with local crafts could help bring electricity to some of the nearly two billion people without access to electricity. The Portable Light Project, a non-profit initiative led by Kennedy & Violich Architecture and Global Solar Energy, in the United States, inserts tiny solar cells into shirts, woven items and bags produced by remote ...
By SciDev.Net
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Reeep softens financial crisis for renewables and energy efficiency in the developing world
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has provided € 667,500 in seed funding for eight new finance projects to accelerate the clean energy market in the developing world. Piloting innovative finance methods is one of the Vienna-based NGO’s key priorities in its small-scale project funding, designed to have a wide ripple effect. Microfinance facilities are a way to open ...
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New partnership aims to expand access to modern energy to 100m people by 2015
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched an Energy for All Partnership that aims to provide access to modern energy to an additional 100 million people in the Asia-Pacific region by 2015. More than 800 million people in the region have no access to energy, and nearly 1.8 billion people still rely on traditional biomass fuels to meet their cooking and heating needs. It's estimated that more ...
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Vietnamese manure biofuel project scoops prize
A scheme that harnesses biogas to improve the quality of life for Vietnamese smallholders is one of six projects recognised in an international awards ceremony. Vietnam"s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) teamed up with the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) in 2003 to create a countrywide biogas programme that takes Vietnam"s human and animal waste and turns it into a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Asian solar power growth could increase lead poisoning
Plans for China and India to generate more solar power may increase lead pollution, according to a study published last week (31 August). The move could release more than 2.4 million tons of lead pollution in China and India, according to the analysis of government plans by researchers at the University of Tennessee, United States. This is because off-grid solar power in both countries uses ...
By SciDev.Net
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US Army Airborne Selects Carmanah A704 for Precision Marking
Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) is pleased to announce an order valued at $120,000, with the US Army. The 101st Airborne Division, known for being called into action when the need is immediate and extreme, has selected the Carmanah A704 solar powered aviation lantern as the perfect tool to aid with rapidly deployed precision drop zone and helipad marking ...
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Year end review of Indian Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has been facilitating the implementation of broad spectrum programmes including harnessing renewable power, renewable energy to rural Areas for lighting, cooking, and motive power, use of renewable energy in urban, industrial and commercial applications and development of alternate fuels and applications. The Ministry evolved renewable energy programme in ...
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Prize honours green innovations in small island states
A social enterprise that says it helped to cut binge drinking in Vanuatu by selling solar-powered lanterns is one of ten nominees for a new award that aims to highlight organisations that champion green energy in small island developing states (SIDS) . Four of the ten candidates for the SIDS Awards 2013 are from the Pacific, including Green Power, which is shortlisted for its work selling ...
By SciDev.Net
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Canadian Coast Guard Renews Standing Offer for Carmanah Marine Lanterns
Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH), through marine distributor Go Deep International Inc., has been awarded a National Standing Offer to supply marine aids-to-navigation (AtoN) and service to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). The initial two-year offer is valued at a total $632,000 with optional extension to a third year. The award represents an ...
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International Airport in Latin America Selects Carmanah Airfield Emergency Back Up Lighting Valued at Almost $800,000
Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) (Pink Sheets: CMHXF) is pleased to announce that a large international airport in Latin America has chosen Carmanah A704-5 solar powered aviation runway and A650 taxiway lanterns as their lantern of choice for emergency back-up airfield lighting for both of the runways on the airfield. The value of the purchase was ...
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Wanted: better bridges between science and aid efforts
Aid innovators are calling for more interaction with research and development communities, ahead of World Humanitarian Day, reports Imogen Mathers. In the aftermath of the devastating bomb attack on the UN's Baghdad headquarters on 19 August 2003, the UN General Assembly pushed through a resolution to hold an annual commemoration of those who were killed, and to celebrate those engaged in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Solar power for the poor: facts and figures
Solar power could help alleviate rural poverty. David J. Grimshaw and Sian Lewis shine a light on its progress, potential and pitfalls. Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. An estimated 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity, with more than 80 per cent of these living in sub-Saharan ...
By SciDev.Net
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Sierra Leone’s Kandeh Yumkella, City Power and Akon Lighting winners in African Utility Week Industry Awards in Cape Town
Sierra Leone’s Kandeh Yumkella of the Sustainable Energy For All Initiative, Johannesburg’s City Power, George Airport and Akon Lighting are just some of the exciting and pioneering power and water professionals, utilities and projects that were winners in this year’s African Utility Week Industry Awards. Uganda’s NWSC won the coveted water utility of the year award for ...
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Carmanah Signs Master Distributor Agreement with First Choice Marine Supply
Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) is pleased to announce that it has signed its first Master Distributor Agreement with a large marine supply company, First Choice Marine Supply (“First Choice”), headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The agreement covers Carmanah’s Caribbean territory. First Choice is a large marine supply firm servicing ...
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