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will be used for lighting, charging mobile
phones, powering hoovers, gynaecological
examination lights, microscopes, and
computer equipment. SolarWorks! will also
install battery storage systems with a total
capacity of 220.8 kWh. “This means, for
example, that if a woman goes into labour at
night, the doctor attending her will have the
light and equipment to help her give birth
safely. Powering laptops, printers and the
Internet will also make it easier to collect and
share medical data,” says the US Embassy in
Maputo.
According to the same source, effective
health services and responses to diseases,
including Covid-19, depend on reliable
access to electricity. Health care facilities
negotiations... we also support the principle on-site – displacing the need for fossil fuels – need it to power essential medical and
of African solution for African problems,” he and eliminating carbon from the production. sterilisation equipment, refrigerate medicines
added. The facility will reduce carbon emission and vaccines, coordinate care and share
It is to be recalled that China held a firm with approximately 100,000 tons of CO2 per information with other health professionals.
position at the UNSC arena supporting the annum, compared to a gas-based fertiliser Yet in Sofala province, 90% of health centres
AU led process to encourage Africans be plant. The project will also reduce the do not have regular access to electricity. Solar
able to resolve the issue of GERD.”AU is a dependency of imported nitrogen fertilisers energy will directly benefit 138,000 people
very good platform to handle the issue of and substitute around 25%, of which the served by the 92 clinics.
GERD. So, we support this issue be handled total accounts for around 800,000 tonnes The installation of its solar energy systems
by the African Union,” he reaffirmed. China per year. Furthermore, the project will is part of Power Africa. The initiative launched
encourages Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt to stay increase fertiliser affordability and ensure the in 2013 by the Obama administration aims
in the negotiation, handle the issue peacefully availability of fertilisers at the right time in the to fund 30,000 MW of installed capacity to
and reach an agreement acceptable by all season for fertiliser application. provide access to electricity for more than
parties, he emphasised. Oserian Two Lakes Industrial Park is a 60mn Africans by 2030. To date, Power
new 150-hectare sustainable development in Africa has financed 12,000 MW of installed
Nakuru County. Its aim is to provide a safe capacity, providing electricity to 20mn people,
landing spot for vision-aligned businesses and according to its manager USAID.
RENEWABLES investors and become a demonstration case
for East Africa’s sustainable industrialisation.
Maire Tecnimont Group MAIRE TECNIMONT GROUP SOL AR
starts preliminary work SOL AR ZOLA Electric boosts access

on a renewable power-to- USAID to fund solar power to solar with distribution

fertiliser plant in Kenya

Italy’s Maire Tecnimont has announced in Mozambique scheme
that its subsidiaries MET Development, The United States Agency for International ZOLA Electric, one of Africa’s leading
Stamicarbon and NextChem have started Development (USAID), which leads renewable energy providers, has launched a
work on a renewable power–to-fertiliser plant the Power Africa initiative, is providing robust distribution scheme to drive market
in Kenya. SolarWorks! Mozambique a grant to install penetration and access to its product in its
MET Development has signed an solar photovoltaic systems in 92 health centres quest to provide clean, effective, and reliable
agreement with Oserian Development in the Mozambican province of Sofala. power anywhere.
Company for the development of the plant at Sofala Province was selected to receive Already, ZOLA Electric has signed into
the Oserian Two lakes Industrial Park located a grant from the United States Agency for their distribution network some of the leading
on the southern banks of Lake Naivasha, 100 International Development (USAID). distributors of solar and renewable products
km North of Nairobi. The grant, worth $320,000, will fund the across Nigeria and has opened its doors to
The renewable power-to-fertiliser plant installation of solar photovoltaic systems in onboard even more. Blue Camel, a leading
will support Kenya’s low carbon and inclusive 92 health centres in the province. SolarWorks! provider of renewable energy solutions
growth, its agricultural output and its Mozambique has been selected to carry out including PV panels, solar streetlights, solar
smallholder farmers and communities. The the work. In all the clinics selected to benefit home systems, and a major distributor for
plant will be located near the country’s largest from this Power Africa grant, the solar energy global solar brands, was recently signed
geothermal energy basin and will be partly provider will install 55.2 kWp of capacity. into the scheme. Blockchain, Black bit
powered by solar energy sources produced According to Power Africa, this electricity Solar, Shokenny Solutions, Enersys Energy,

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