The Access to Energy Institute  (A2EI) and its partners started a study in May 2019 to understand exactly which agricultural technologies can be solar powered. The result of that endeavor is this paper: Ten products were selected for study, of which two are presented here. The remaining eight will be released in the coming months. Find out more from A2EI website:  https://a2ei.org

Africa is among the strongest solar resources in the world, it also brings tremendous opportunities to the solar and energy storage industry. The great market potential has encouraged Leader Group to launch Africa Solar + Energy Storage Congress & Expo 2017 to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on June 27-28, 2017. Participants such as Governments, Utilities, Project developers, Investors, Energy storage products manufacturers, Consulting firms, as well as other related sectors are invited to together discuss opportunities, challenges and solutions for solar and energy storage development in African market, especially Kenya, South Africa, Morocco,Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.

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Africa is among the strongest solar resources in the world, it also brings tremendous opportunities to the solar and energy storage industry. The great market potential has encouraged Leader Group to launch Africa Solar + Energy Storage Congress & Expo 2017 to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on June 27-28, 2017. Participants such as Governments, Utilities, Project developers, Investors, Energy storage products manufacturers, Consulting firms, as well as other related sectors are invited to together discuss opportunities, challenges and solutions for solar and energy storage development in the African market, especially Kenya, South Africa, Morocco, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Nairobi, Kenya, together with its partners facilitates an In-Depth Technical Training on Solar Hybrid Mini-grids at Strathmore Business School Nairobi (Ole Sangale Rd., off Mbagathi Way) on January 24th and 25th, 2018. The two-day Training focuses on specifically applicable designs, components, and technologies for the erection of Solar Hybrid Mini-grids in rural/ remote areas of Kenya.

Powergen, GMG developer in Kericho, is ready for a tea estate solar powered mini grid construction, pending ERC approval. Know more about it by reading the Business Daily article of 14th March

I-DEV, partner of the GMG Managing Entity, has published a report on solar electrification in Kenya. It highlights the growing interest and viability of energy solar solution.

The KNBS report 2018 indicates (see section 3.5 in particular), that only 3% of rural Kenyans use environmentally sustainable sources of energy (14% at national level). At the same time the World Economic Forum states that, in terms of increasing access to electrity and transitioning to enviromentally fiendly sources of energy, Kenya “shows the hightest readiness scores among Sub-Saharan countries, whose popoulation faces energy access challenges” (see pages 7 and 31 to 33 of the WEF Fostering Effective Energy Transition report 2018. Find here a newspaper article that gives more information on the same. The article refers to the two reports mentioned: KNBS Basic report 2018 and WEF Fostering Effective Energy Transition report 2018.