Schneider Electric Defines Physical Infrastructure Solutions for Edge Computing

Schneider Electric Defines Physical Infrastructure Solutions for Edge Computing

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

Schneider Electric Defines Physical Infrastructure Solutions for Edge Computing  High-bandwidth content, Internet of Things aggregation and latency-sensitive applications cited as drivers of edge computing growth  Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, today announced its strategy and capabilities for supporting enterprises, cloud and services providers looking to deploy compute resources at “the…

Finnish Government Report Reveals Lithium and Cobalt Supplies Insufficient
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Finnish Government Report Reveals Lithium and Cobalt Supplies Insufficient

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

Finnish Government Report Reveals Lithium and Cobalt Supplies Insufficient Progress on the energy transition might be threatened as a new report by the Finnish government revealed that the world does not have enough Lithium and Cobalt to replace all batteries every 10 years. The 1,000-page report undertaken for a government agency in Finland by Associate…

Africa Suffers Climate Injustice as Global Warming Intensifies – AXIAN boss

Africa Suffers Climate Injustice as Global Warming Intensifies – AXIAN boss

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

Africa Suffers Climate Injustice as Global Warming Intensifies – AXIAN boss The Chief Executive Officer of AXIAN Group, Hassanein Hiridjee has said wealthy countries must do more to assist Africa in reducing the harmful effects of climate change and providing climate justice to the continent. AXIAN is a pan-African group operating across five core areas including…

South Africa gets €400m Renewable Energy Boost as EIB, DBSA Pen New Deal

South Africa gets €400m Renewable Energy Boost as EIB, DBSA Pen New Deal

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

South Africa gets €400m Renewable Energy Boost as EIB, DBSA Pen New Deal The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Development Bank of South Africa have formally agreed to a €400m facility to be supplied by the EIB for private sector renewable energy investment across South Africa. Africa’s most industrious economy is currently experiencing its greatest electrical…

IRENA, Partners to Decarbonise Industrial Value Chains

IRENA, Partners to Decarbonise Industrial Value Chains

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

IRENA, Partners to Decarbonise Industrial Value Chains Twenty-eight organisations and knowledge partners in a coalition, the Alliance for Industry Decarbonisation, have made further progress in their aim to decarbonise industrial value chains and speed up the world’s energy transition goals in conformity with the Paris Agreement. Industrial emissions form 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions…

EIB Drives Telecoms Connectivity for 2.5m Congolese
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EIB Drives Telecoms Connectivity for 2.5m Congolese

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

EIB Drives Telecoms Connectivity for 2.5m Congolese The impact investing arm of the European Union, European Investment Bank (EIB) , has announced a US$10 million quasi-equity investment to transform digital connectivity in Eastern DR Congo to be delivered by Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group (BCS). The region, with a population of over 2.5 million, would…

FG Confirms Optimal Fuel Supply for Yuletide as Production Hits 1.5mbpd

FG Confirms Optimal Fuel Supply for Yuletide as Production Hits 1.5mbpd

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

FG Confirms Optimal Fuel Supply for Yuletide as Production Hits 1.5mbpd The Federal Government through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has announced that there is sufficient supply of petroleum products, about 2.1 billion litres for a total of 34 days. This is just as the Minister of Petroleum, Mr Timipre Sylva…

MOMAN donates N50m to Nigerian Red Cross Society to Flood Victims

MOMAN donates N50m to Nigerian Red Cross Society to Flood Victims

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

MOMAN donates N50m to Nigerian Red Cross Society to Flood Victims The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) has donated the sum of N50 million to support communities who are affected by floods in Nigeria. Handing over a N50m cheque to the Nigerian Red Cross Society at a ceremony in Abuja, Mr Olumide Adeosun,…

Expecting Great Things from Africa’s New Oil and Gas Economies in 2023

Expecting Great Things from Africa’s New Oil and Gas Economies in 2023

ByJerome Onoja Okojokwu-Idu

Expecting Great Things from Africa’s New Oil and Gas Economies in 2023  While the consensus opinion of the western elites may be that oil and gas is a dirty, outdated technology staggering on its last legs, the African Energy Chamber remains grounded in reality. As proponents of a zero-carbon future tout the promises of solar,…