One of the most ambigious renewable energy projects has had a sound start in Munich this week: Destertec. Within the next three years there are to be concrete plans for  solar thermal plants in North Africa, the initiators, twelve major companies, said. Whilst there is still technical research to be done, the main objective now [...]

In November 2006, the UK Foreign Ministry offset their 2004 air travel emissions via CERs from a 10MW South African wind farm developed by Genesis Eco-Energy. Now more than two years later, Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a joint venture deal for the development of 500MW of wind power in South Africa. Mainstream’s founders are [...]

This just in from REEEP Partner Organisation Eco Ltd, who are working with Practical Action to promote a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and PISCES (Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security), a five year Research Programme Consortium funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and co-ordinated by the [...]

A lot has changed since November 2006. That’s when REEEP helped finance a wind farm developed by South African wind developer, Genesis Eco-Energy (Pty) Ltd., through the sale of carbon credits to the UK government. The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) purchased the credits generated by the Jeffreys Bay 10MW wind farm to offset [...]

I am currently attending ICREA (International Conference on Renewable Energies in Africa – Making Renewable Energy Markets Work for Africa), which is taking place in Dakar, Senegal (16-18 April). The Conference, which is being attended by forty-nine African countries, was opened by Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal. Wade pointed out that energy and infrastructure are [...]