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$320m ‘soft’ Japanese loan for Kenyan geothermal project

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Kenya has received a $320-million soft loan from Japan to boost investments in the energy sector.
12 Mar 10
 
 
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Ingérop Africa has been appointed by HCB to provide technical support and project management for the Refurbishment of the Cahora Bassa dam Spillway Gates - Mozambique

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Ingérop Africa (in association with its subsidiary Ingérop Moçambique) has been awarded the "REABDESC PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TECHNICAL CONSULTING SERVICES" regarding the repairs and refurbishment of 8 spillway gates and one surface gate with the...
 
 
Biofuels

Critical for Africa to be part of the biofuels revolution

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Africa’s low productivity of existing farming systems, combined with the large stretches of suitable cropland, is making it the world’s highest energy crop-production potential for the burgeoning global biofuels market; and it is critical to...
11 Sep 09
 
 
Biofuels

Waste vegetable oil biodiesel refineries planned for KwaZulu-Natal

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Biodiesel production company First In Spec (FIS) Biofuels has issued an initial public stock offering (IPO) to raise funds for the first of its three waste vegetable oil (WVO) biodiesel refineries in South Africa.
11 Sep 09
 
 
BIOFUELS

Maize farmers urge u-turn on biofuels

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South African farmers want the government to allow the use of maize in biofuels production in order to ease energy costs and help make cultivation profitable, an industry official said on Friday. The government unveiled blending ratios for...
26 Feb 10
 
 
ALTERNATIVE FUELS

Global body launches alternative-fuels service

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A dramatic growth is expected worldwide in the use of compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and hybrid vehicles, more than doubling their use in the next decade in helping address the issues of climate change and energy...
23 Oct 09
 
 
BIOFUELS

Second-generation biofuels on the brink of commercial breakthrough, says study

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Pretreatment and gasification technologies are on the verge of making second-generation biofuels a commercial reality, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, entitled ‘Worldwide Market Analysis of Second Generation Biofeedstock’.
23 Oct 09
 
 
BIOFUELS

Global slowdown curbing African biofuels exports

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The financial crisis is hindering African biofuels exports, Hart Energy Consulting’s (Hart) Global Biofuels Centre (GBC) director for Biofuels Europe and Africa Maelle Soares Pinto tells Engineering News (EN).
16 Oct 09
 
 
 
 
 
 
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