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MARCH 15, 2021

Fayalite (Fe 2 SiO 4 ) with extraordinary high heavy REE (HREE) contents in ultramafic cumulates of the Vergenoeg F-Fe-REE deposit (South Africa) provides the unique opportunity to study REE systematics in olivine. While some data for Mg-rich olivine exist, REE data for Fe-rich olivine are almost absent.

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MAY 17, 2021

Puerto Rico has stable warm temperatures and ample sunlight year-round, as well as a wide range of exposure to prevailing winds and waves. The researchers are currently targeting commercially valuable red algal eucheumatoid species, which are primarily cultivated in East Africa and Asia.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

However, the raw materials for batteries are, in most cases, imported into China from Africa and refined before being exported to Europe. Africa has a wealth of critical battery raw materials and is in a position to use these to attract more value-add in downstream processing and manufacturing.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro. We are also pleased to collaborate with Starfire on system deployments in South Africa, where there is a promising emerging market for innovative zero carbon technologies.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Renewable energy, which includes wind, solar and other renewables, remains the largest sector in investment terms, achieving a new record of $366 billion committed in 2021, up 6.5% Record amounts were invested in all three regions covered in the report: Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), and the Americas (AMER).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Italy could import hydrogen from North Africa, at cost 14% below domestic production. Italy could employ its existing pipelines to Northern Africa to put solar panels “where the sun shines” more, produce hydrogen locally, and then transport the hydrogen to Italy through the pipes.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Siemens is developing here together with other industrial companies on a technological and financial concept for providing clean power for Europe and Africa from solar-thermal power plants in the Sahara and wind farms in northern Africa.

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APRIL 6, 2015

billion of final investment decisions on offshore wind projects in Europe. A continuing sharp decline in technology costs—particularly in solar but also in wind—meant that every dollar invested in renewable energy bought significantly more generating capacity in 2014. billion) and South Africa ($5.5 Challenges.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The slip in the July-September quarter leaves clean energy investment for the year so far running a modest 2% below that in the first nine months of 2017—leaving open the possibility that 2018 as a whole will end up matching last year’s total, particularly if a few more multibillion-dollar offshore wind deals are concluded before Christmas.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The plants will take advantage of the best options at each location—from solar energy in Oxford, Mexico and China, to biogas in South Africa, to wind power in Leipzig. By the end of this year, our plants worldwide will obtain their electricity exclusively, 100%, from renewable energy sources. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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APRIL 29, 2010

The long-term goal of the joint venture is the climate-friendly production of electricity in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. To achieve this goal we’re supporting the development of solar- and wind-driven power plants. When at Audi we speak of sustainable mobility, we are looking at the entire energy balance.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

With an increasing supply of electricity from fluctuating renewable energies, such as wind farms or solar power stations, they can help stabilize power grids, levelling out energy fluctuations with virtually no loss—a role that is partly fulfilled by fossil power plants at present.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hydro-Québec (Canada) and Technifin (South Africa) have entered into an intellectual property collaboration agreement relating to the licensing of their respective intellectual property (IP) in lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies, notably for lithium-ion battery applications. Its sole shareholder is the Québec government.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

—Guillaume Cartier, Chairperson for Nissan’s Africa, Middle East, India, Europe and Oceania region The six new models—three for each company—will be engineered and built in Chennai. Chennai Plant already sources more than 50% of its electricity from renewables, including solar, biomass and wind.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Growth is led by developing regions such as China, India, Africa and other emerging economies. By 2040, more than 15 percent of the world’s electricity will be generated by renewable fuels—solar, wind, biofuels, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric power. L/100 km) by 2040. Renewable fuels will see strong growth.

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JULY 13, 2012

African Cats launched the first GreenCat 605 catamaran designed by Simonis-Voogd in Durban South Africa. The GreenCat 605 uses a new 20 kW Green-Motion fossil-fuel-free retractable propulsion/regeneration system. With this retractable propulsion system drag is minimized so high cruising speeds are expected. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 15, 2010

The key player in the process is the Indo-Pacific warm pool, an enormous, bathtub-shaped area spanning a huge area of the tropical oceans stretching from the east coast of Africa east to the International Date Line in the Pacific. In addition, the team used a wind-driven, linear ocean model for the study. Click to enlarge. Weiqing Han.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Enel’s renewables arm Enel Green Power is the world’s largest renewable private player, managing around 46 GW of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower plants in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. GW powered by wind, hydropower, geothermal and solar energy.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The report finds that Germany, which is pursuing rapid development in hydrogen, could procure cost-competitive hydrogen (at about $1/kg) in 2050 from a variety of sources, including via electrolysis from its own domestic renewable power, or via pipeline imports from North Africa or Southern Europe. Source: BloombergNEF. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future. Source: “Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition”.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

This process step, which is fraught with costs and losses, drives the total expense above the cost price of H 2 produced from wind energy in northern Germany, which can be transported by pipeline to its destination for immediate use. Of course, we will still need imported hydrogen, and in large quantities, for two reasons.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

2010 and 2015 LCOE ranges for solar and wind technologies. The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar has been falling for several years. Bottom: LCOE ranges for solar PV and wind technologies at three discount rates. Source: IEA/NEA. Click to enlarge. Source: IEA/NEA. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 20, 2010

As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Multilateral Solar and Wind Working Group. Other initial partners include the International Energy Agency. Global Superior Energy Performance (GSEP) Partnership.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Increases of 6 °C or more in average monthly summer temperatures would be expected in large regions of the world, including the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, and the contiguous United States. Projections for a 4°C world show a dramatic increase in the intensity and frequency of high-temperature extremes.

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Climate Change Global Climate Africa 285

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MAY 20, 2022

Particular opportunity for the Global South identified as net-zero fuel production costs expected to be up to 20% lower in Latin America and Africa. Investment in green infrastructure key, as shipping will carry more than half of the world’s net-zero fuels by 2050, report estimates. London, UK. Vancouver, Canada. 17th May 2022. MWh in 2050).

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APRIL 11, 2023

Mt of proposed projects are in Africa, which could supply the largest amounts of hydrogen to Europe—by ship or pipeline. Germany’s first offshore hydrogen pipeline project, AquaDuctus, will transport green hydrogen from offshore wind installations in the North Sea to Germany. Mt of local supply with startup by 2030 (or only 2.1

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Hydrogen Energy Europe Gas 531

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MAY 17, 2010

A team of researchers led by Brown University has found that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa—the second-oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world—has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. The people throughout southcentral Africa depend on the fish from Lake Tanganyika as a crucial source of protein.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It is commonly thought that the greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower plants are similar to those of wind-generated power facilities. This popularity stems partly from the perception that hydropower is an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels. They also estimated emissions caused by flooding the reservoir.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Examples of the use of renewable power include: In Leipzig, Germany, the BMW Group is using wind power. In mid-2013, four wind turbines started operation on the premises of the plant, with 100% of the power produced going into the production of the BMW i3 and BMW i8.

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JUNE 29, 2019

Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A 2004 lifecycle analysis synthesis report prepared by Five Winds International for ConocoPhillips, Sasol Chevron and Shell International Gas concluded that: Total GHG emissions of the GTL system are between 12% less and 11% more than the refinery system, based on varying assumptions and data.

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Enel Green Power, within the Enel Group, develops and operates renewable energy plants worldwide and is present in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Fincantieri is one of the world’s leading shipbuilding complexes, the only one active in all sectors of high-tech naval engineering.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. Past attempts to measure this effect from ships had focused on places where the wind blows across the shipping lane, in order to compare the “clean” area upwind with the “polluted” area downstream.

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JULY 5, 2016

We’re designing the LCA60T to transport logging timber from remote locations, but that also means being able to deliver large items like wind turbines or electricity pylons in one piece to the side of a mountain, for example. For that purpose Morocco will become the “third parent country” of Flying Whales.

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