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A woman hangs her laundry on June 22, in the township of Demat, some 57 kms south of Durban, where South Africa's power company Eskom has installed solar heaters on roofs. The initiative, which aims to ease pressure on the grid, has given residents a free and endless supply of hot water.

Bulletin: Solar water heaters offer relief to S.Africans

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Azouassi Togbe from Benin works on a circuit board

Article: African grandmothers study solar engineering in India

“We can learn things from Africa, and Africa can learn from us”...

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Women from poor countries around the globe study solar engineering in India

Article: African grandmothers study solar engineering in India

“We can learn things from Africa, and Africa can learn from us”...

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A villager at Chumbi village, some 50 kilometres southeast of Nairobi, reads with the aid of a solar-powered lamp in her house. She is among the villagers in the east African country who have benfited from solar-powered LED lamps innovated by Kenyan Evans Wadongo.

Bulletin: Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Evans Wadongo is not yet 25 but has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow...

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Evans Wadongo holds up one of his solar-powered LED lamps at his workshop in a Nairobi suburb. Not yet 25, Evans has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow Kenyans living in poor rural communities by supplying them with some 15,000 lamps since producing the first one from pieces of fabricated scrap metal and discarded solar equipment in 2004.

Bulletin: Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Evans Wadongo is not yet 25 but has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow...

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Animal tracker Blade Witbooi goes hunting, in Andries Vale village in the Kalahar area of Northern Cape in July. South Africa's plan to build what could become the world's biggest solar project on the edge of the Kalahari desert has drawn keen interest from investors

Bulletin: S.Africa solar plan draws interest: government

South Africa's plan to build what could become the world's biggest solar project has drawn keen...

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South Africa wooed investors for what could become the world's largest solar project, built on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to provide an eighth of the country's electricity.

Bulletin: S. Africa woos investors for huge solar plant

South Africa wooed investors Thursday for what could become the world's largest solar project,...

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Bulletin: S.Africa woos investors for world's biggest solar plant

South Africa wooed investors Thursday for what could become the world's largest solar project,...

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Article: Renewable sources of energy for Africa

About 77% of Africa’s sub-Saharan population lives without access to electricity,...

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Bulletin: Solar water heaters offer relief to S.Africans

Article: African grandmothers study solar engineering in India

Article: African grandmothers study solar engineering in India

Bulletin: Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Bulletin: Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Bulletin: S.Africa solar plan draws interest: government

Bulletin: S. Africa woos investors for huge solar plant

Bulletin: S.Africa woos investors for world's biggest solar plant

Article: Renewable sources of energy for Africa

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