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 Tanzania Country Profile. The publication highlights the country's inroads in renewable energy as well as opportunities for scaling-up the energy sector.   Over the past decade, in an effort to strengthen and modernize the energy sector, the government of Tanzania has made a series of p . . .

 Just a few degrees south of the equator on Thursday, sunlight bathed rows of pristine solar panels as delegates from around the world arrived to celebrate the inauguration of East Africa’s first solar field.   “What we can see up here today for Rwanda, Africa and the world i . . .

 The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced new financing to help expand the reach of Off Grid Electric in rural areas and urban centres.   IFC is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory and asset management services to encourage private sec . . .

 Rwanda’s Minister of Infrastructure, James Musoni, and the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), John Morton, will lead the ribbon-cutting on Thursday, February 5, at 12:30pm of the 8.5 Megawatt solar field at the Agahozo-Shalom You . . .

A Ugandan-Italian consortium Simba Telecom/Building Energy SPA and the consortium of Access/TSK Electronica of United Arab Emirates and Spain will invest $38million in two Solar Power Energy projects in Eastern Uganda.   The two consortium companies will generate 20MW of electricity, each gen . . .