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Why Africa Needs Solar Power – Part 5

Posted August 19, 2022
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

Posted August 19, 2022
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

Posted August 19, 2022
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

Posted August 18, 2022
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

Posted August 18, 2022
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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DPT to provide 10MW of renewable energy generation facilities for Africa Data Centres in South Africa

Posted November 26, 2021
DPT to provide 10MW of renewable energy generation facilities for Africa Data Centres in South Africa Africa Data Centres has appointed Distributed Power Technologies (DPT) to provide renewable energy and storage solutions for its data centres across in South Africa. The partnership will initiate the deployment of renewable energy generation facilities to meet the more ...
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A million Home Batteries Could Help Eskom

Posted May 4, 2021
A million Home Batteries Could Help Eskom South Africa’s public electricity utility company, Eskom has been implementing various levels of load shedding periodically over the past few years. Load shedding is expected to continue for the foreseeable future because a large portion of Eskom’s generating fleet is out of service. This is due to unplanned ...
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DPA trial on Tesla Powerwall a huge success

Posted June 27, 2019

Distributed Power Africa (DPA), a subsidiary of Econet Global, will be installing Tesla Powerwalls to power Econet Wireless’ local operations of their telecommunications towers; commencing one of Africa’s largest deployments of AC coupled Lithium-ion batteries in the telecoms sector. This follows the successful completion of a 12-month trial integrating Tesla Powerwall with one of Econet’s ...

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