Sunergy News
GREEN Solar Academy Launches 2023 Solar Training Courses to Help Meet Zimbabwe’s Renewable Energy Goals
GREEN Solar Academy is thrilled to announce its solar training courses in Zimbabwe in 2023. With the increasing demand for…
Time-saving modular PV training courses are back for 2022
GREEN Solar Academy is bringing back the excellent SuperSolarSchool training course content through the second half of 2022, delivered in…
November SuperSolarSchool in Harare
The internationally accredited solar installation training course is now offered in Zimbabwe. The GREENSolar-accredited trainers, Steve (from JVS Projects), and…
Upcoming SuperSolarSchool training course
November 22-27 2021 Book early for our early-bird discount! The SuperSolarSchool training programme by GREEN Solar Academy combines the Sunrise…
Lockdown’s done, SuperSolarSchool’s begun
Our first post-Covid SuperSolarSchool took place from 23 to 27 August 2021. The group was smaller than usual, only 7…
Sunrise Course Training Resumed After Lockdown
After very challenging economic circumstances and a disrupted 2020 due to COVID-19, Sunergy with their training partner, JVS Project, resumed…
2019 Year in Review – Installed Solar Capacity by Sunergy
2019 was a successful year, with several varied projects being commissioned throughout the year. New technologies were pioneered within the…
Karanda Mission Hospital
Sunergy (Pvt) Ltd., in partnership with local and international donors and technical partners, embarked on providing solar power to one…
ZERA Registered Installer and Trainer
Powering a brighter future. Registered with ZERA Zimbabwe as a Solar Installer and Trainer. Call us on +263 (24) 2333213…
Solar Industry News
Covid-19 impacts investors’ energy strategies in Africa
A survey by African Business has found that investors in Africa’s energy sector are worried about the fallout from Covid-19 but remain generally confident about the continent’s prospects Over 50% of African energy market participants polled by African Business say that Covid-19 will have an impact on their investment strategy in 2020/2021 (see Fig 1 – to view Figs…
Close energy poverty gap by empowering women with clean energy
Exclusive interview with Ifeoma N. Malo, who is already an energy pioneer in her own right in Nigeria. “In 2014, 265 young girls in Chibok were kidnapped from their schools during a study period. The reason they were kidnapped with ease and in such high numbers is that they did not have electricity. Energy is…
Bold vision and solar power, equals water
Last week, we discussed the effects that water has on (almost) every aspect of our lives, including health, economics, agriculture, education, and even gender equality. And as such a basic element of our lives, water also presents one of the greatest challenges Africa faces today. With over 300 hundreds of millions living without access to…
Op-Ed: Solar to spur continent’s post-pandemic bounce?
By Terje Osmundsen The Coronavirus pandemic has left Africa’s economies bleeding. After 25 years of uninterrupted growth, gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to contract this year, forcing millions into unemployment and poverty. The need for a post-pandemic recovery plan for Africa is becoming ever more urgent. There will be no sustainable growth…
The elephant in the room: Can the solar industry go circular?
To avert an impending waste crisis, the industry must look at ways to extend the useful life of solar power systems and maximise what can be reused and recycled. Laws and knowledge sharing are essential, experts say. By Tim Ha March 9, 2020 Source: https://www.eco-business.com/news/the-elephant-in-the-room-can-the-solar-industry-go-circular/ Solar power systems are generally said to last about 25 to 30…
The rise and rise of solar in Togo
09.02.2020. , John van Zuylen Togo is a small country in West Africa that seldom makes the headlines of international news. But when it comes to solar, this country really stands out as amazing example for the promotion of solar as a solution to develop the country and bring cheap and reliable electricity to its population.…
Solar Water Pumps Have Been Around Since the 1970s: Here’s Why They Haven’t Scaled
In the two months since buying her solar water pump, Mama Vero’s small farm in Morogoro, Tanzania has gone from being a parched stretch of earth with withering plants to a blooming crop of hot chilies ready for the market in the capital, Dar-es-Salaam. The rains were late this season, and without her solar water…
Africa: The Land of Opportunity for Off-Grid Solar
Consolidation is picking up in Africa’s off-grid renewables market, where big investors like Engie are betting on the electricity consumers of the future.FATIMA SADOUKISEPTEMBER 06, 2019 Africa is by far the largest destination for investment into off-grid energy access. (Credit: BBOXX) Africa is the land of opportunity for investors in decentralized off-grid solar, and two…
Only 6% of Africa’s farmlands is irrigated; changing it will massively impact the entire continent
By Yariv Cohen Published : September 03, 2019 | Updated : September 03, 2019 Imagine a professional basketball player wearing sneakers only 6 per cent of the time. Or an international banking chain, with only 6 per cent of the branches having a safe. Strange, right? Although these are absurd, hard-to-imagine scenarios, this is precisely the…
Market Research on Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE)
September 23, 2019 An Emerging Market for Off-Grid Solar’s Newest Frontier: PULSE Ongoing innovation in technology and distribution models continues to be a hallmark of the off-grid solar sector. Having already led to hundreds of millions of people benefitting from off grid solar products ranging from lanterns to solar home systems (SHS), products are now developing…
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