Energy In Africa

There is a potential for Africa to become the next oil tycoon in the globe. On an article published in the FT.com, commodities writer Neil Hume pointed out some important aspects in the African oil industry that can contribute to its future production independence.

As modern time comes many things goes to changes. This modernization which results to invent new things that also requires more energy. People need energy in order to use the gadgets that they have. Businessmen depend on energy to run their factories and plants.

Researchers in Africa namely Messrs Michael Commeh, Isaiah Nimako and Nene Amoatey, all came from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) saw the need to alleviate the number of wastes including plastics in the country. They looked and address the environmental problem in a positive way.

Biogas is a renewable source of energy generated from both animal and human excreta as well as green waste. A renewed material is produced by collecting waste materials which are going to be processed in a digester. The liquid waste can be used as an organic fertilizer while the energy produced will be used to light households.

There are few development issues more pressing and omnipresent than the problem with energy. Over the years, most countries have depended primarily on fossil fuels and non-renewable energy sources (such as petroleum) for power and electricity. This is even more significant for the Sub-Saharan African region.

Though the U.S. shale oil boom of the past several years has led to a renewed surge of domestic oil production as well as an oil glut, crude oil prices have remained stubbornly high. There are a growing number of reasons, however, why crude oil prices are likely to finally experience a bust in the not-too-distant future.

Dalbit is a privately owned by Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa a total energy solutions provider. We engage in procurement, trading, transport and management of petroleum products within Kenya and neighboring regions.

Oil and mining has always been created a big fuss in different and several countries. There has also been instances wherein countries becomes good friends and enemies due to this. But in East Africa Oil and mining will serve as the backbone of their economic Growth.

In a recent Financial Times article, it was mentioned that "the quarter to the end of June is the first period in which natural gas and coal contributed equally to electric power generation in the US". That's quite a huge milestone for natural gas, if you ask me.

In my previous blogs, I talked much about the benefits of renewable energy and its different forms, namely: geothermal, wind, community energy, and waste-to-energy. In this article I will introduce yet another source of renewable energy that has been showing a lot of promise for African countries: biomass.

As the need for safe and clean energy sources increases, the trend for generating renewable energy sources is also continuing to emerge. Renewable energy sources are nature-based, which means that it is sourced from natural processes, such as rains, waves, sunlight, wind, and geothermal heat.

Currently, Kenya is seeing and experiencing the changes brought by one of the most revolutionary inventions in the field of sustainable energy. Developed by the Azuri Technologies, a company based in UK, is the IndiGo solar kits, which can provide electricity among homes.

The power sector in Africa is experiencing many challenges, such as inadequate power generation and capacity, resulting to low access and limited power supply. The primary hindrance for the increase in power generation capacity of the region is associated with the high costs of energy production, which forces the local, state and federal government to...

At present, a greater majority of sub-Saharan Africa does not have energy supply. Because electricity in the continent is "acutely inadequate and unreliable", as described by EcoPower Africa, it continues to get in the way of development. Last month, the United States President Barack Obama announced Power Africa, its government's initiative to increase Africa's access...

How can we be not hopeful about a brilliant future when today's youth are very competitive? A creative, shocking, but simple innovation has made its way through a scientific exhibit in Africa. In 2012, it was featured in various online news portals that four female African students who were in high school invented a urine-powered...

The struggle in gaining access to energy sources is a battle being fought for a long time. Many parts of Asia, for instance, still have no access to efficient energy sources and this negatively affects the locals' productivity, education, livelihood opportunities, and other aspects of their lifestyle.