In Ivory Coast, the Spark+ Africa Fund has raised over $40 million in a first close, it was announced on Wednesday. The Fund is the world’s first impact investment fund focused on financing the value chains of clean and modern cooking appliances and fuels, to make them available to more people across Sub-Saharan Africa. Clean […]
In the Ivory Coast, France’s EDF, Meridiam and Biokala, through their joint venture BIOVEA Energie, have awarded TSK a new project in Ivory Coast. This time it is a 46 MW biomass plant located in Aboisso, 100 km east of Abidjan, which will be the largest plant in West Africa fueled by waste from palm […]
In the Ivory Coast, Scania has signed an agreement with the Ivorian Ministry of Transport and SOTRA, the Abidjan Transport Company, to deliver 450 buses. The bus delivery forms part of a major initiative to upgrade SOTRA’s fleet and improve public transport in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Scania, in collaboration with Agence Nationale d’Appui au Développement […]
In the Ivory Coast, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has approved a grant of $995,000 to Asticom Kenya Ltd., to support the construction of a 10 megawatt (MW) grid-connected municipal waste-to-energy (WTE) plant. The grant will fund the cost of conducting a full environmental and social impact assessment, […]
In the Ivory Coast, the Berkeley Air Monitoring Group (US), in partnership with International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development / University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Project Gaia Prospects Ltd. and Winrock International will conduct a pilot evaluation of diffusion and usage of ethanol cooking technology in urban neighborhoods of Lagos with funding from the African […]
In the Ivory Coast, the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved a US $580,000 preparation grant for the expansion of Green Energy & Biofuels (GEB) Bio-refinery project in Nigeria. The project is a pilot of Small & Medium Entrepreneurship Fundamentals (SMEFunds), a social enterprise based in Lagos, and the first bio-energy cooking fuel production […]
In the Ivory Coast, PANGEA (Partners for Euro African Green Energy), COTRAME, SAPHIR HM (two companies from Cote d’Ivoire) and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Cote d’Ivoire (DG Sustainable Development) signed a MoU to launch a public private partnership which will promote the production of ethanol from cassava and sugarcane in Cote […]
