Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Rwanda Solar Grid Capitalizes on Limited Sunshine

KIGALI—

The biggest solar power plant in East Africa has just opened in Rwanda. It is the first grid level solar plant in the region - a 21-hectare field covered with panels. Rwanda might not seem an obvious place to put it, as the country averages only about five hours of sunshine per day, and not much more where the plant is located. However, sunshine is not the whole story.

Until last month, South Africa was the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to have a substantial amount of solar power feeding into its grid.

Ghana has great plans for solar energy, but cloudy Rwanda has overtaken the West Africans by actually completing a large scale photovoltaic (PV) solar park.

The one that just opened at the Agahozo Shalom village in eastern Rwanda has peak capacity of 8.5 megawatts, nearly seven percent of capacity on the national grid. The government has signed a power purchase agreement, or PPA, with Gigawatt Global to pay for that electricity over 25 years. Scatec Solar, a Norway based company, built the plant at Agahozo Shalom village.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Kenya rescinds VAT on solar products

While local PV manufacturers have blasted the move, others have welcomed the move as a step in the right direction in the country's increasing adoption of renewable energy.

SolarAid's solar lights help people save up to 25% of their monthly income by replacing kerosene-based lighting, according to SolarAid.

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Kenya's solar industry appears split on the country's recent move to eliminate value-added tax fees on imported solar equipment.

The East African country imposed a 16% VAT on imported solar products last year but a new VAT law that went into effect in May now makes a number of items, including PV products, exempt from the tax.

Non-profit group SunnyMoney, part of London-based charity SolarAid, welcomed the move, saying it has reduced costs for its small portable solar lights, which has led the organization to pass on the savings to customers.

"Removing VAT on solar products reduces the cost to consumers and aids access to everyone buying solar products. The benefits to Kenyans and the national economy will be substantia," said Linda Wamune, SunnyMoney's operations director in Kenya. "We will be able to reach more customers in off-grid areas throughout Kenya with these price decreases."

The 100% Renewable-Powered City: Too Good to be True?

Solar panels outside the Burlington-area headquarters of Renewable NRG Systems, which we wrote about last year ( James Fallows )

Yesterday I mentioned the latest accomplishment of Burlington, Vermont. Previously the site of such implausible-sounding but actually true achievements as "an airport that is pleasant" and "a newspaper that is doing well," it now boasted a "100% renewable" city energy supply.

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A reader in China, who is himself in the clean-energy business, writes to dispute the claim—really, how much of a step forward it represents. First he highlighted these parts of the AP story about the renewable claim. The story said:

"[The local utility companies do not contend] that each of their customers' lights comes from renewable sources all the time. When the wind isn't blowing and the rivers are low, they will buy power from traditional sources that include electricity generated from fossil fuels.

"When the resources are right, though, they get more than they can use, and the difference is sold to other utilities. Over time, they sell more than they buy."

The story then quoted an energy expert on the effects of the plan:

"They are selling the renewable energy credits to customers in other states. Those customers have the renewable and clean energy benefits of that power," [one expert] said. "Simply using accounting measures to make claims about clean energy doesn't get us there."...
[A professor at the University of Vermont] said reaching 100 percent was a big achievement.
"It definitely makes me feel better here at UVM to know that every time I turn on a light switch or fire up my computer or anything else, to know that it's 100 percent renewable," he said.

This reader in China (a Westerner) begs to differ:

Burlington’s Electric Department purchased the 7.4 megawatt Winooski 1 hydroelectric facility on the Winooski River.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont’s largest city has a new success to add to its list of socially conscious achievements: 100 percent of its electricity now comes from renewable sources such as wind, water, and biomass.

With little fanfare, the Burlington Electric Department crossed the threshold this month with the purchase of the 7.4-megawatt Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River at the city’s edge.