South African capital city refuses to let solar power users go off-grid

A Pretoria resident has alleged that the City of Tshwane refused to disconnect him from the grid, despite following the ...
BIOENGINEER

Solar, Wind and Seawater: Off-Grid System Turns Surplus Renewable Power Into Freshwater

A multi-objective optimization study of an off-grid solar-wind-battery-reverse osmosis system in Zabol, Iran, shows that ...
pv magazine International

Angola switches on Africa’s largest off-grid solar-plus-storage park

Portuguese group MCA has inaugurated a 31.85 MW off-grid solar park tied to 75.26 MWh of battery energy storage in Angola. The Luau photovoltaic park is now the largest off-grid solar park in Africa, ...
Yahoo Finance

MCA inaugurates the largest off-grid solar park on the African continent and strengthens its solution for bringing electricity to remote communities

The infrastructure is part of the Rural Electrification Project, which will benefit more than a million people MCA has surpassed the previous record set at Cazombo for installed infrastructure, ...
The Conversation

Connecting home solar and electric vehicle batteries to the grid could boost South Africa’s clean energy and strengthen the electricity system

Homes with solar power and electric vehicles can sell excess energy to the grid. Nattrass/Getty Images South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get ...
SFGate

Africa's off-grid solar sector courts mainstream investors with landmark financing deals

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Landmark fundraising deals by two of Africa’s largest off-grid solar companies are raising hopes that private capital markets could become a major source of funding to help bring ...
Business Day

Grid Crux powers Dolphin’s Lagos cable gateway with 10-year solar deal

Dolphin Telecoms signs a 10-year solar power deal with Grid Crux to cut diesel use and improve renewable energy supply at its ...