President Paul Kagame and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta have endorsed the ‘New Deal on Energy’, a vehicle through which the African Development Bank (AfDB) will invest in delivering electricity for all Africans, by 2025. Both Kagame and Kenyatta were speaking on a live CNBC-Africa television debate that also featured AfDB president Dr Akinwumi Adesina,…

In East Africa, the European Union (EU) has engaged in a funding agreement with Rwanda that is worth €177 million ($202 billion), which will be directed towards the energy sector over the next five years. The financing pact is the first of a series to be signed in the coming months as part of a…

Rwanda has signed a $24.17 million financing agreement with the African Development Bank (AfDB) in support of the regional 147MW Ruzizi III hydropower plant (HPP). Rwanda’s minister for finance and economic planning, Claver Gatete, commented: “The project [Ruzizi III hydropower] underscores the importance of ensuring reliable and affordable electric power supply to achieve sustainable economic…

A memorial to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is to be powered almost entirely from solar following the completion of a PV system on the site. The project was completed earlier this month at the Genocide Memorial in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Details of the project’s size have been withheld for customer confidentiality reasons, but…

Rwanda and the Climate Investment Funds are today, 12 November 2015, celebrating the endorsement of that country’s renewable energy investment plans under the CIF’S dedicated fund for Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries Program. (SREP) SREP funding of $50 million (USD) will help develop financially sustainable long-term markets for the private sector provision…

With witness to so much that is negative in the world, Rwanda today offers a brilliant and refreshing light of hope and vision for education, business development, infrastructure and human rights. We have witnessed first- hand, a truly amazing transformation since the tragic events of 1994. First, as a result of some truly forward thinking…

As the 2015 Rwanda day in The Netherlands came to a close in the Netherlands, foreign companies have shown interest in investing in Rwanda’s energy sector, a move likely to help the country achieve energy targets. The companies from France and Italy are looking at investing in renewable energy, one of the priority areas where…

KIGALI, Rwanda – Rwandans will soon benefit from a project that generate electricity from heating methane gas on a floating platform. The project is being done in two phases and contracted to KivuWatt, a subsidiary of ContourGlobal. Recently the company announced in the local media that completion of the first phase will be done by…

The frequent power cuts affecting the Eastern Province are a result of shortages in water supply, officials from the Rwanda Electricity Group (REG). According to Belthe Nzeyimana, a REG official who oversees Gatsibo, Kayonza and Rwamagana districts, with the prolonged dry season, the water levels have dropped, lowering the capacity to generate sufficient electricity. “Our…

U2 front-man Bono “knighted” Israeli renewable energy pioneer Yosef Abramowitz while visiting a solar field developed by Abramowitz’s company Gigawatt Global in Rwanda, The Times of Israel reported today. Bono was in Rwanda visiting the solar field with a group of US representatives to explore ways in which the US and Africa can expand economic…