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Dan Kammen

Africa goes solar… (if the utilities let them, and if they find money)

written by Gary Zieff

Following up from my last post. Other areas of interest at the World Bank’s Energy Week conference included rural electrification.  Grid connection is notoriously poor throughout Africa.  Tanzania, for example, is around 22% depending on whom you talk to.  In addition, just because a community has a grid penetration, it doesn’t mean everyone in that community has power at their house.  Connections are expensive.  The waiting list for the utility to make the connection is long.

Often time people take it upon themselves to make their own connection.  Even if they do have power, it might not be reliable.  Kenyan Power and Lighting Company is estimated to have around 11,000 outages per month. The other option for people to address lack of (or unreliable) grid connection is to support it with solar PV or fuel based generators.  These two technologies support communities, can add capacity to the grid (if connected), and provide a potentially cheaper way to provide power to end-users (factoring in the implied costs associated with transmission) .

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April 17, 2009 0 comment
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Van Jones & Academic Institutions: Invaluable Resources for CleanTech

written by Ian Thomson

45 minutes of engaging discourse – last night Van Jones, president and founder of “Green For All”, had his audience, made up largely of members of the greater Berkeley community, enthralled. In an age of public relations, spin and hype we had before us one of the rare respites of integrity, in a man that gets the (positive) credit he deserves.  If you’ve not yet heard him speak, check out the clip below, you will hear a very compelling and articulate argument to invest in our capacity by developing our workforce.

As I looked around the room there were students, faculty, venture capitalists, social workers, community activists, environmentalists, non-profit organizers and reporters; Van can bring people together like no other, but being on a university campus brought an even more diverse group of people to the event. I thought back to the countless symposiums (symposia?) I have been to over the years – without fail it has been those organized by the universities have brought the most diverse audiences of participants together – and in that mix, the magic of cross pollination happens.

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February 12, 2009 2 comments
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