Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Africa work together to reach Sustainable Development Goals

Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Africa work together to reach Sustainable Development Goals Africa Data Centres has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Distributed Power Africa. Distributed Power Africa will supply 12MW of renewable solar energy for Africa Data Centres facilities in South Africa through wheeling. By working together, the two companies are ...
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Why Africa Needs Solar Power – Part 5

We have reached the end of our 5-part series surrounding the challenges Africa faces when it comes to electricity. We have also presented our solutions. In our previous article, we looked at the lack of renewable energy skills in Africa, especially when it comes to the rural areas, which also happen to be the areas ...
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Why Africa Needs Solar Power – Part 4

In our previous article in our 5-part series surrounding the challenges Africa faces when it comes to electricity, as well as our solutions, we looked at the lack of access to funding and offered our solution in the form of distributed power, to ensure that our vision of a future where every person in Africa ...
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Why Africa Needs Solar Power Part 1

Nowhere in the world is perfect. But in Africa, we are pretty close with our wonderful people’s hospitality, natural beauty, and majestic wildlife, which brings in tourists from all across the globe. There are a few issues that we as Africans face before we can call our continent “perfect” and with our 5-part blog series, ...
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Why Africa Needs Solar Power – Part 3

We continue our 5-part series surrounding the challenges Africa faces when it comes to electricity, and we also offer our solution on how these challenges can be overcome. Here’s a hint: It’s through solar power. In our last article, we looked at the unreliability of the power supply and how this can be addressed by ...
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Why Africa Needs Solar Power Part 2

We started a 5-part series surrounding the challenges Africa faces when it comes to electricity and how these challenges can be overcome through solar power. The wonderful people of our magnificent continent deserve a chance to uplift and empower themselves, and they can only do so when we see a change in the current way ...
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Covering all telecommunication bases

Posted July 18, 2022
Covering all telecommunication bases Translating energy demand into sustainable and reliable service is as simple as one stop, one shop, says Norman Moyo, CEO of Distributed Power Africa (DPA) Africa is home to some of the world’s most complex operating environments. Companies have to navigate extensive distances between satellite towers, telecom towers and base stations, ...
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Changing the energy conversation in Zimbabwe

Posted July 11, 2022
Changing the energy conversation in Zimbabwe It is possible to keep costs tight and in-line with budgets after ZESA’s rate increase, says Norman Moyo, CEO of Distributed Power Africa. The cost of power has risen, globally, and with it the cost of doing business. In Zimbabwe, the recent Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) tariff increase ...
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DPA wins Africa Energy Forum award in Brussels

Posted July 4, 2022
DPA wins Africa Energy Forum award in Brussels DPA recently scooped the Photo of the year award in the Landscape category at the recently ended Africa Energy Forum and AFSIA awards held in Brussels. The award was for the 1.8MW ground mount plant DPA installed at the Tanganda Tea Ratelshoek Estate in Chipinge, Zimbabwe. To ...
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TECHNIKARI: ZESA’s strength is TRANSMISSION infrastructure, not power generation with DPA CEO Norman Moyo

Posted June 9, 2022
  ZESA’s strength is TRANSMISSION infrastructure, not power generation In the latest episode of Technikari, they hosted Norman Moyo the CEO of  Distributed Power Africa (DPA). They discussed the state of power generation in Africa with a particular focus on the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and the shortfalls in power production that have been a ...
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