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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14

April 12-19 2024

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.

The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.

The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.

The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.

The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.

The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.

The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.

Bonus:

President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.

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China considers exporting green technology to African leaders amid Western restrictions

This week, China will call for increased shipments of goods, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and solar panels, at a summit of 50 African countries in Beijing in exchange for promises of loans and investment.

However, Chinese leaders are likely to want to hear how China plans to keep an unfulfilled promise from a previous summit in 2021 to buy $300 billion worth of goods. They will also seek assurances of progress on unfinished Chinese-funded infrastructure projects, such as a railway to link the greater East African region. Eric Olander, co-founder of the China-Global South Project, stated:

The prize is going to go to those countries who have carefully studied the changes in China and align their proposals with China’s new slimmed-down priorities. That’s a big ask for a continent that generally has very poor China literacy.

Africa’s largest bilateral lender, investor, and trading partner is refusing to finance expensive projects, preferring instead to sell advanced and environmentally friendly technologies to the continent. Beijing’s top priority will be finding buyers for its EVs and solar panels, as well as establishing overseas manufacturing bases for emerging markets.

China has already begun adjusting the terms of its loans to Africa, allocating more money to solar farms, power plants, and 5G Wi-Fi facilities, while cutting back on bridges, ports, and railways.

Careful cooperation

When President Xi Jinping opens the ninth forum of the China-Africa Cooperation Summit on Thursday, he is expected to brief the leaders of The Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe on tapping into China’s growing green energy industry. The meeting will be attended by delegates from all African states except Eswatini, with which Beijing has no ties.

The UK, Italy, Russia, and South Korea also hosted African summits in recent years, recognising the potential of the region’s youth and its 54 seats at the UN. However, China’s huge role as a financial and trading partner makes its meetings much more important.

China is likely to want to talk about expanding trade and access to minerals, such as copper, cobalt, and lithium, in countries like Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. However, Beijing may be cautious about increasing funding commitments following debt restructuring proposals in countries including Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zambia after the 2021 summit.

China’s enthusiasm for lending, however, could be tempered by security concerns, such as the hostility between Niger and Benin that killed six Nigerian soldiers guarding a PetroChina-backed pipeline, or bloody protests in Kenya over tax hikes.

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Kenya will purchase electricity from Ethiopia's mega dam.

Kenya will purchase electricity from Ethiopia’s mega dam.

Kenya is to purchase electricity from Ethiopia’s massive River Nile dam, which started producing electricity for the first time last weekend. Electricity exports to neighboring nations and beyond are expected to bring in roughly $1 billion (£746 million) each year. A new deal between the two neighbors was reached earlier this month. Kenya’s commitment to how much power and at what cost is still…

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Three Gorges Has Nothing on China-Backed Dam to Power Africa

(Bloomberg) -- A dream of building the world’s biggest hydroelectric project in the heart of Africa may be inching closer to reality.For decades, plans have been made and discarded to construct a series of hydroelectric power stations on the world’s second-longest river that would generate almost twice the power of the Three Gorges Dam in China, the world’s largest. If completed, a Grand Inga Dam could go a long way to addressing one of the most debilitating obstacles to development across Africa from Nigeria to South Africa: electricity shortages.“There’s not a single place in the world where you find such a concentration of hydropower as here,” Omer Kawende, an engineer with the national electricity company, said as he stood on a bridge at the site where swallows swooped under a misty sky. “This is absolutely exceptional.”The problem? It’s in Congo.A country two-thirds the size of Western Europe, Congo is one of the most difficult places on earth to get anything done. It’s ranked 184th out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s latest Doing Business report and regularly tops Transparency International’s index of most corrupt nations. It’s been brought to its knees by dictatorship, rebellions, and head-splitting bureaucracy since the end of Belgian colonial rule in 1960.Investors On BoardLate last year there was a sudden burst of activity around Grand Inga. Then-President Joseph Kabila signed an accord in October with two groups of Chinese and Spanish investors, who committed to funding technical studies before building and running an 11,050-megawatt facility called Inga III at a cost of $14 billion. The consortia, which include AEE Power Holdings SL and China Three Gorges Corp., also pledged to attract lenders and find buyers of the electricity elsewhere in Africa.That could be news of revolutionary import to Congo’s 80 million people, who make do with about 1,500 megawatts, about as much as typically needed for a city of 1 million in industrialized nations. Grand Inga could single-handedly generate more than 40,000 megawatts upon completion.For now though, outages are a near-daily occurrence in the capital, Kinshasa, and in huge swathes of the country there’s no power at all. About 19% of Congolese have access to electricity, the lowest percentage among African countries after Burundi, according to the World Bank.Poor MaintenanceTwo dams built on the same stretch of the Congo River more than three decades ago, Inga I and Inga II, still provide most of the nation’s power but have often run below capacity due to poor maintenance, while rehabilitation has proved slow and costly.“Every day the electricity comes and goes -- it’s a bit like living in the village,” said Yannick Tshiamala, a 33-year-old university graduate who helps his father run a barbershop and a car-repair business on an unpaved street in Kinshasa. “If you wake up in the morning without electricity, you have to figure out where to charge your phone and where to iron your clothes.”All eyes are now on Kabila’s successor, Felix Tshisekedi, who’s vowed to connect half of the population to the national grid over the next decade. Inga III, his advisers say, is one of his priorities -- even though Tshisekedi hasn’t confirmed he’ll stick with the Spanish and Chinese consortia, which have yet to be awarded a concession contract.“We’re going at cruising speed,” said Michel Eboma, Tshisekedi’s chief adviser for mines and energy. “The president has the general interest of the people at heart, and Inga III aims at improving the life of the population.”China’s ApproachMuch will depend on China’s attitude. While President Xi Jinping’s government supports the project, he’s increasingly working to ensure that his Belt and Road Initiative doesn’t leave poorer nations with unsustainable debt. The uncertainty surrounding China’s approach has caused dislocations in projects across Africa.In Kenya, construction of a flagship railway from the coast to Uganda was halted after China withheld some $4.9 billion in funding. In Zimbabwe, a giant solar project hit a cash shortfall after China’s Export Import Bank backed out due to the government’s legacy debts. In Ethiopia though, Chinese contractors were hired earlier this year to accelerate work on the long-delayed Grand Renaissance Dam, which had been mired for years in design and management conflicts.Inga III “has to be a project that guarantees repayment of loans because the financial budget of the government is very limited,” said Wang Tongquing, China’s ambassador to Congo. “According to the information I have, the plans of this project are not yet very mature, above all the plan for the consumption of the electricity after construction.”Not all Congolese are convinced that the dam will solve the nation’s desperate lack of energy. In its current form, most of the power it will generate is meant for other countries.More than 30 civil-society leaders published an open letter to the president in March, saying Inga III risks loading Congo with debt and won’t provide help for most of its people. And, while parliament approved a bill five years ago to liberalize the energy sector, Congo still lacks an independent energy regulator.“The need for electricity among the population is enormous and Inga III could -- I say could -- improve the situation,” said Madeleine Andeka, one of the letter’s signatories. “It’s not bad in itself that we would supply power to mining companies and other countries, but I’m not sure how we would benefit as a host country.”South African InterestToday no country in the region is more interested in the development of Inga III than South Africa, which is struggling with power shortages from its aging coal-fired plants.In 2005, state power utility Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd. developed a $50 billion plan for both Inga III and Grand Inga, but it never got off the ground. South Africa has since signed a treaty with Congo to buy 2,500 megawatts from the facility and said last year it might double that amount.The African Union now wants to be involved too. Inga “must be a pan-African project” because more than 70% of its power will go to consumers outside Congo, said a spokesman for the organization’s high representative for infrastructure development, Raila Odinga, who visited the site in May.“We need to develop Inga as a continent and link it to the different power pools that already exist,” Odinga said in comments sent by his office.Early SuccessInga’s potential was recognized as far as back as 1921, when the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the basin had a quarter of the world’s hydroelectric potential.The construction of the first two dams, Inga I and Inga II, in the heady, post-independence years under then President Mobutu Sese Seko, generated power that lit up the capital and supplied the mining industry, Congo’s only source of export revenue.While Inga I began operating in 1972 and was considered a success, Inga II required transmission lines over 1,100 miles of rainforest to reach the mines of Katanga province and loaded the country with massive debt as copper prices were plummeting in 1982.The slow collapse of Mobutu’s dictatorial regime and a subsequent civil war paralyzed progress on Inga III. After peace returned in 2003, several investors lined up to work at Inga, only to get squeezed out or withdraw later. Just one dam has been completed since the 1980s -- a 150-megawatt plant built by China’s SinoHydro Corp. But construction took three years longer than planned and transmission lines still haven’t been built.While the nation awaits progress on Inga, some Congolese businessmen are forging ahead with plans for smaller dams. Among them is Yves Kabongo, chief executive officer of Great Lake Energy, who recently finalized a contract with PowerChina Ltd. for a 900-megawatt facility on the Congo river that’s designed to supply the mining industry.“Let’s be realistic -- Inga III is a huge undertaking,” Kabongo said. “It’ll take years -- you need to reassure investors, you need to have a sound economy. We have projects that are much smaller and quicker to realize, because we’re private citizens.”To contact the reporters on this story: Pauline Bax in Kinshasa at pbax@bloomberg.net;William Clowes in Kinshasa at wclowes@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Paul Richardson at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net, Karl Maier, Benjamin HarveyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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(Bloomberg) -- A dream of building the world’s biggest hydroelectric project in the heart of Africa may be inching closer to reality.For decades, plans have been made and discarded to construct a series of hydroelectric power stations on the world’s second-longest river that would generate almost twice the power of the Three Gorges Dam in China, the world’s largest. If completed, a Grand Inga Dam could go a long way to addressing one of the most debilitating obstacles to development across Africa from Nigeria to South Africa: electricity shortages.“There’s not a single place in the world where you find such a concentration of hydropower as here,” Omer Kawende, an engineer with the national electricity company, said as he stood on a bridge at the site where swallows swooped under a misty sky. “This is absolutely exceptional.”The problem? It’s in Congo.A country two-thirds the size of Western Europe, Congo is one of the most difficult places on earth to get anything done. It’s ranked 184th out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s latest Doing Business report and regularly tops Transparency International’s index of most corrupt nations. It’s been brought to its knees by dictatorship, rebellions, and head-splitting bureaucracy since the end of Belgian colonial rule in 1960.Investors On BoardLate last year there was a sudden burst of activity around Grand Inga. Then-President Joseph Kabila signed an accord in October with two groups of Chinese and Spanish investors, who committed to funding technical studies before building and running an 11,050-megawatt facility called Inga III at a cost of $14 billion. The consortia, which include AEE Power Holdings SL and China Three Gorges Corp., also pledged to attract lenders and find buyers of the electricity elsewhere in Africa.That could be news of revolutionary import to Congo’s 80 million people, who make do with about 1,500 megawatts, about as much as typically needed for a city of 1 million in industrialized nations. Grand Inga could single-handedly generate more than 40,000 megawatts upon completion.For now though, outages are a near-daily occurrence in the capital, Kinshasa, and in huge swathes of the country there’s no power at all. About 19% of Congolese have access to electricity, the lowest percentage among African countries after Burundi, according to the World Bank.Poor MaintenanceTwo dams built on the same stretch of the Congo River more than three decades ago, Inga I and Inga II, still provide most of the nation’s power but have often run below capacity due to poor maintenance, while rehabilitation has proved slow and costly.“Every day the electricity comes and goes -- it’s a bit like living in the village,” said Yannick Tshiamala, a 33-year-old university graduate who helps his father run a barbershop and a car-repair business on an unpaved street in Kinshasa. “If you wake up in the morning without electricity, you have to figure out where to charge your phone and where to iron your clothes.”All eyes are now on Kabila’s successor, Felix Tshisekedi, who’s vowed to connect half of the population to the national grid over the next decade. Inga III, his advisers say, is one of his priorities -- even though Tshisekedi hasn’t confirmed he’ll stick with the Spanish and Chinese consortia, which have yet to be awarded a concession contract.“We’re going at cruising speed,” said Michel Eboma, Tshisekedi’s chief adviser for mines and energy. “The president has the general interest of the people at heart, and Inga III aims at improving the life of the population.”China’s ApproachMuch will depend on China’s attitude. While President Xi Jinping’s government supports the project, he’s increasingly working to ensure that his Belt and Road Initiative doesn’t leave poorer nations with unsustainable debt. The uncertainty surrounding China’s approach has caused dislocations in projects across Africa.In Kenya, construction of a flagship railway from the coast to Uganda was halted after China withheld some $4.9 billion in funding. In Zimbabwe, a giant solar project hit a cash shortfall after China’s Export Import Bank backed out due to the government’s legacy debts. In Ethiopia though, Chinese contractors were hired earlier this year to accelerate work on the long-delayed Grand Renaissance Dam, which had been mired for years in design and management conflicts.Inga III “has to be a project that guarantees repayment of loans because the financial budget of the government is very limited,” said Wang Tongquing, China’s ambassador to Congo. “According to the information I have, the plans of this project are not yet very mature, above all the plan for the consumption of the electricity after construction.”Not all Congolese are convinced that the dam will solve the nation’s desperate lack of energy. In its current form, most of the power it will generate is meant for other countries.More than 30 civil-society leaders published an open letter to the president in March, saying Inga III risks loading Congo with debt and won’t provide help for most of its people. And, while parliament approved a bill five years ago to liberalize the energy sector, Congo still lacks an independent energy regulator.“The need for electricity among the population is enormous and Inga III could -- I say could -- improve the situation,” said Madeleine Andeka, one of the letter’s signatories. “It’s not bad in itself that we would supply power to mining companies and other countries, but I’m not sure how we would benefit as a host country.”South African InterestToday no country in the region is more interested in the development of Inga III than South Africa, which is struggling with power shortages from its aging coal-fired plants.In 2005, state power utility Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd. developed a $50 billion plan for both Inga III and Grand Inga, but it never got off the ground. South Africa has since signed a treaty with Congo to buy 2,500 megawatts from the facility and said last year it might double that amount.The African Union now wants to be involved too. Inga “must be a pan-African project” because more than 70% of its power will go to consumers outside Congo, said a spokesman for the organization’s high representative for infrastructure development, Raila Odinga, who visited the site in May.“We need to develop Inga as a continent and link it to the different power pools that already exist,” Odinga said in comments sent by his office.Early SuccessInga’s potential was recognized as far as back as 1921, when the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the basin had a quarter of the world’s hydroelectric potential.The construction of the first two dams, Inga I and Inga II, in the heady, post-independence years under then President Mobutu Sese Seko, generated power that lit up the capital and supplied the mining industry, Congo’s only source of export revenue.While Inga I began operating in 1972 and was considered a success, Inga II required transmission lines over 1,100 miles of rainforest to reach the mines of Katanga province and loaded the country with massive debt as copper prices were plummeting in 1982.The slow collapse of Mobutu’s dictatorial regime and a subsequent civil war paralyzed progress on Inga III. After peace returned in 2003, several investors lined up to work at Inga, only to get squeezed out or withdraw later. Just one dam has been completed since the 1980s -- a 150-megawatt plant built by China’s SinoHydro Corp. But construction took three years longer than planned and transmission lines still haven’t been built.While the nation awaits progress on Inga, some Congolese businessmen are forging ahead with plans for smaller dams. Among them is Yves Kabongo, chief executive officer of Great Lake Energy, who recently finalized a contract with PowerChina Ltd. for a 900-megawatt facility on the Congo river that’s designed to supply the mining industry.“Let’s be realistic -- Inga III is a huge undertaking,” Kabongo said. “It’ll take years -- you need to reassure investors, you need to have a sound economy. We have projects that are much smaller and quicker to realize, because we’re private citizens.”To contact the reporters on this story: Pauline Bax in Kinshasa at pbax@bloomberg.net;William Clowes in Kinshasa at wclowes@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Paul Richardson at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net, Karl Maier, Benjamin HarveyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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The paradox in the African power sector has been of escalating issue to stakeholders at numerous ranges. Africa isvitality-methods prosperous nevertheless power bad.Stats of power provide and utilization may possibly best explain the problems of power access on the continent. Africa signifiessixteen per centof the world's inhabitantsbut it only accounts forabout 3 p.cof the worldwide strength use.In accordance to the Globe Strength Outlook, “Sub-Saharan Africa has now turn out to be themost electrical power poor areain the world in phrases of the total number of folks (surpassing Asia) as well as the share of its overall inhabitants.”

The International Strength Agency (IEA) more defined that eighty per cent of the 1.one billion individuals without having access to electrical power and contemporary strength services dwell in the rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa and building nations in Asia. These startling figures depict the power challenges in Africa which is a main barrier to the improvement of African countries.

Luckily, a variety of initiatives at international, regional, and national ranges have been energetic in bettering energy circumstances on the continent. Even so, most of the supports packages have been targeted on venture implementation, while, there is also a huge knowledge gap that need to be loaded via capability advancement if renewable energy initiatives on the continent must be sustainable.

The part of ability constructing in attaining the common entry to present day energy can't be overemphasized. There has been considerable enhancement on the sustainability of renewable strength initiatives with the growing amount of local community engagement through limited-expression trainings organized for members of benefitting communities. Outside of that, there is need to strategically create sustainable energy experts with updated competences to velocity up sustainable energy improvement in Africa.

A number of intercontinental organizations actively selling renewable strength in Africa have emphasised this want. 1 of the results of the “Higher Education for the Renewable Strength Sector in Africa” workshop arranged by the Africa-EU Renewable Power Cooperation Programme (RECP) in 2014 is the sturdy require to intensify renewable energy activities in Africa by training a new generation of vitality professionals and also strengthening African study institutions. Similarly, the Africa-EU Vitality Partnership’s (AEEP) second stakeholders’ forum hosted by the Politecnico di Milano in 2016 also highlighted the need for even more concentrate on ability growth in Africa and engineering transfer to make sure rewards from the occupation possibilities and expertise advancement that accompany the increasing renewable and more effective strength sector.

There is need to develop an structured information foundation in developing nations around the world by constructing a nicely-equipped trans-disciplinary workforce that will be ready to reproduce, build on and place their knowledge via training, investigation and task improvement. Meeting this need to have was the thrust of Enlarged Community in Education and Research for Growing Influence of Sustainable Energy engineering on local growth (ENERGISE) Undertaking, which was funded by the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)-European Union (EU) Cooperation Programme in Increased Education (EDULINK). The ENERGISE project was in line with EDULINK’s international aim of fostering capacity building and regional integration in the area of larger education through institutional networking.

In conference its objectives, the ENERGISE project developed the capacities of partnering establishments to produce modern and labor-pushed power engineering training packages. This is in see of growing “the variety, good quality and capabilities of specialised vitality engineers who can act as workers or entrepreneurs within the complicated obstacle of sustainable accessibility to energy” in East Africa. The task sought to produce a new era of sustainable power engineers who “would be in a position to promote proper systems, including lengthy expression socio-economic and environmental perspectives” in the area. The Politecnico di Milano (Italy) underneath the UNESCO Chair on Power for Improvement partnered with Jimma University (Ethiopia), Complex College of Kenya (Kenya), Specialized University of Mombasa (Kenya) and Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technologies (Tanzania) to apply the undertaking. The selection of these countries was made dependent on their reduced rate of energy access: Ethiopia (15 per cent), Kenya (15 percent) and Tanzania (eleven per cent). The undertaking shipped intensive instruction sessions on capacity constructing on new educating methodology and on dispersed energy techniques (DESs) which are primarily based on renewable energies.

DESs are regarded as viable power solutions for rural communities the place most of the East African Inhabitants resides. The influence of DESs in bettering sustainable strength problems specifically in off-grid rural communities about the world has been amazing. The Paris-based Renewable Energy Coverage Network for the 21st Century (REN21) stated that distributed renewable vitality techniques have helped offer electrical energy access for an estimated 100 million individuals in 26 million households around the world.

The growing impacts of DESs very likely explains the purpose UNESCO, UNIDO, Entire world Lender amongst other global organizations emphasized the need to improve the amount and level of specialized energy engineers to create these kinds of vitality methods. The vitality engineers are this sort of that will develop experience in layout, implementation, checking and maintenance of proper and sustainable energy answers that can be tailored for rural vitality programs. The ENERGISE undertaking is a response to this international need to have with target on East Africa.

The ENERGISE task consortium took a holistic and procedural strategy in attaining the goals of the venture. A complete evaluation of the recent status of power engineering was executed in the spouse institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. The evaluation was carried out in look at of determining the gaps and requirements in the shipping and delivery of quality energy engineering training software in the location and to stay away from duplication of initiatives. The assessment was carried out by means of dispensing questionnaires to 137 associates of workers and 274 college students of the partnering establishments, like fifty eight external stakeholders. Findings from the evaluation unveiled that there was a reduced level of data about strength and lower pleasure on power problems in the area. From the study, the venture consortium also comprehended the mandatory require to increase the linkages between the academia, public, civil and non-public sectors in buy to develop high-good quality and marketplace-pushed curricula in vitality engineering.

The undertaking also upgraded the competence of the faculty associates and produced the capacities of non-educating staff of the partnering institutions. Trainings on various subject areas and talent acquisition plans that were determined for enhancing the good quality of deliveries had been organized for 114 senior, sixty one technical and thirty junior members of staff of the institutions. At the end of the 42-thirty day period interval, the task produced 5 syllabi in a few nations around the world and a new labor-pushed master of science (MSc) degree software in Sustainable Strength Engineering, which addresses engineering and financial perspectives of sustainable power. The curriculum created emphasizes development of neighborhood and modern systems for the uptake of renewable energies in sustainable manner. The master’s diploma software is established to be piloted at the Jimmy University in Ethiopia.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016.

The magnitude of the problem may be disheartening. Yet for Jamie Martin, the most daunting challenges also present the greatest opportunities. He is the founder of Injini, an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent.

Today, Injini announced its first cohort of startups, comprised of teams from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan and Tanzania. The eight were chosen from 180 applications.

Previously a consultant and policy adviser to Michael Gove, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of Education, Martin first explored growth opportunities for international education companies in Africa in 2015, after leaving his gig at Boston Consulting Group. That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email.

It wasn’t for a lack of effort from educators who wanted to tackle the problem. Rather, he adds, “on speaking to local teachers and entrepreneurs, I realized the reason these innovations weren't getting off the ground was there was next to no early stage funding or support.”

The Injini accelerator is part of the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi), established in 1999 to support entrepreneurs in Cape Town. (CiTi also supports innovation “clusters” for the banking and travel industries.) Other financial backers for Injini include an European impact investor, as well as the South African arm of a major international foundation, Martin shares.

Each participating startup will receive roughly $40,000 in cash (U.S. dollars), along with additional support that Martin values at another $40,000. These services include access to an in-house “technical team to help support our startups,” Martin adds. “We’re going to hire four junior [developers] to help the teams build, and hire one senior-level developer.”

In return, Injini takes up to 15 percent of equity in each company.

“We want these businesses to tackle African education problems and create African educational solutions,” says Martin. “If you engage local entrepreneurs, they can get creative solutions that will work in the local context, in a way that is nearly impossible for a team based in another continent.” More specifically, he adds, “we need [solutions] that work when electricity fails, and things that don’t need much data.”

To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. (Their capabilities are often described as a halfway between basic and smartphones.) Across Africa, feature phones make up 56 percent of the overall mobile phone market, according to technology research firm IDC.

AskMatabe, one of the eight Injini startups and based in Kenya, is building an offline search engine that allows students to text questions and receive answers on their phones. M-Shule, based in Tanzania, claims it can deliver personalized lessons and performance analytics through SMS messages. Yo Books, a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions.

Injini plans on running two six-month programs each year, both of which will culminate in a demo day for not only investors, but also local education ministries, foundations and private school chains. “Crucial to education startups is scaling their businesses, and that requires securing agreements with customers,” notes Martin. In Africa, “your customers can also be your investors. Sometimes a school chain will even buy out a company.”

Africa rarely features prominently in business and education headlines, particularly for Western-based media outlets. Yet the U.S. edtech industry got a peek when 2U, the publicly-traded American company that helps universities create online graduate-level programs, paid $103 million to acquire South African startup, GetSmarter. Its CEO, Sam Paddock, is an advisor at Injini.

Pearson, through its Affordable Learning Fund, has also invested in several Africa-based education companies. So has Village Capital, which runs regional competitions where entrepreneurs vie to win investments.

Here are the eight companies in Injini’s inaugural cohort:

Accelerated (Ethiopia): teacher training services that helps educators use technology effectively;

Ask Matabe (Tanzania): an offline search engine for students;

Early Bird (South Africa): game-based assessments that help parents & teachers track a child’s development;

M-Shule (Kenya): an adaptive learning platform designed for feature phones;

Syafunda (South Africa): multimedia math and science lessons for low-income communities;

Uthini (South Africa): a language learning app that connects learners with human tutors and a chatbot assistant;

Yo Books! (South Sudan): reading platform that distributes books on low-cost devices;

Zelda (South Africa): a platform that helps students explore educational and career opportunities.

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