Spiro has the largest fleet of electric motorcycles on the roads in Africa. Spiro now has over 13,000 electric motorbikes and 40,000 swappable batteries in operation across Benin, Togo, Rwanda, and Kenya. Spiro says, to date, riders have collectively driven almost quarter of a billion kilometers. Spiro also says that, … [continued]
Sterling Bank is a commercial bank in Nigeria serving individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. The banks says it has a key focus on businesses within socially and environmentally conscious sectors, which it calls the H.E.A.R.T (Health, Education, Agriculture, Renewable Energy, and Transport) sectors. Under the Renewable Energy pillar, the … [continued]
Solar power in Nigeria is experiencing a breakthrough moment. The poster child for neo-colonialism in Africa, Nigeria is that continent’s largest producer of crude oil. Yet it has no refineries of its own, which means Nigerians pay exorbitant prices for gasoline and diesel fuel shipped in from first world countries. … [continued]
Microgrids in Nigeria are getting a boost from the World Bank, which is promoting 1000 new systems in the coming years.
On a visit to Africa’s biggest economy, RMI’s Jon Creyts finds rising demand for solar solutions
Breweries are some of the largest energy consumers in the C&I sector. These large facilities will benefit a lot from installing grid-tied solar power plants to offset the more expensive grid electricity during the day. The reduction of solar panel prices over the last decade has made financing of large … [continued]
It’s 2022, and 600 million people in Africa still don’t access to electricity. About 50% of them live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. To ensure that universal access to affordable electricity is achieved by 2030, connections to over 70 million people will … [continued]
ThinkElectric Africa is a non-profit organization with a mission to accelerate Africa’s transition to renewable energy and sustainable transport. The vision of the founder birthed a for profit organization called ThinkBikes Limited. ThinkBikes has started delivering its locally produced electric tricycles to customers in Nigeria. Its electric cargo tricycle, called … [continued]
Report: In rural Nigerian communities, small electric vehicles powered by cost the same as fossil fuels and expand access to electricity RMI, Factor[e] Ventures and the UK-charity Shell Foundation show scaling electric mobility with a growing minigrid industry is profitable for both minigrid and electric vehicle operators and improves community … [continued]
Tolulope Olukokun, the founder and CEO of ThinkElectric Africa, recently quit his job at the Federal University of OYE EKITI in Nigeria to focus on ThinkBikes. Olukokun had been lecturing courses in Mechatronics Engineering for the past 10 years, as well as building the ThinkElectric Africa Initiative. Using his savings, … [continued]
