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Mind the gap: Financing Africas energy boom
2016-07-05 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London`s Africa Energy Forum An engineer fixes the hinge on a portable solar power container It looks like it could carry milk or paraffin, but this plastic bottle is full of batteries. Villagers can fill it up at a solar hub in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and take it home to power phones or lightbulbs. Lungelwa Tyali, entrepreneur behind the PowerTurtle model, has sold about 130 of...
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