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Dutch solar company aims to power up more than a million Nigerian households

Lumos Global, a Dutch company specialising in off-grid solar power, plans to light up more than a million Nigerian households by 2025 as it ... Lumos, which has already fitted more than 100,000 solar ... read more

Solar power lights up lives in Nigeria

The founders of Dutch company Lumos knew they could do better. In Nigeria ... enough solar power to light a house, cool a room with a fan and charge cell phones for about eight hours. Customers can ... read more

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the commodity trader Vitol that pulls the levers of the global economy

Its shipments fuel our cars, planes, and trains, heat millions of homes ... the company helped the Kurds sell their first cargo of oil independently of the Iraqi government. Vitol took delivery of a ... read more

Companies work to scale renewable energy alongside oil and gas

This article will shine some light ... company also has invested in five joint venture PV solar facilities, in California, Arizona, and Texas, which, at peak capacity, generate a combined 73 Mw of ... read more

Once Terror of Nigerian Oil, Former Militants Back Jonathan

He now runs the Global West Specialist Ltd. security company ... took power five years ago, the Aleibiri community expected that its decade-old spill disaster would at last get the government’s ... read more

Goodluck Jonathan’s journey to Nigeria’s presidency is also a story of how he lost it

In January 2011, a year after he sent troops to restore order in Jos, Goodluck Jonathan ... to inherit power from the military in the 1999 elections, they sought someone for whom a particular ethnic ... read more

Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Nonfiction

Pulitzer-winning biographer Morris, for Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, tells Thomas Alva Edison’s story backward, opening with the creator of the first long-lasting light bulb ... Pulitzer ... read more

15 paths to successful innovation: what we can learn from stories of these 75 iconic innovations

The chain was eventually sold to PepsiCo for $125 million in 1978 ... In 2004, a Japanese company ordered 100 cameras at a sports show, followed by an appearance on the QVC home-shopping network. read more

Playing Favourites: Tako Reyenga

In the summer of 2014, Tako Reyenga travelled to Greece and spent ... It was released on a Dutch label, that's why you can find it here. James Pole, my colleague at Red Light Records, found this ... read more

Social entrepreneurs meet at World Economic Forum in Davos

After that, the Nigerian bought ... necessary to repair solar lamps — and thus have a job opportunity. "My organization has, in its 47 years of existence, educated and brought learning to 4.5 million ... read more

Nigeria solar company raises $20 million led by Ebay founder

INTERNATIONAL - A Nigerian solar-power company raised $20 million with ... The country of more than 200 million people is only able to send about a quarter of its total power capacity to homes and ... read more

Tanzania: Dutch Bank Gives U.S.$32.5m to Light Up Tanzania

ZOLA Electric, the Dutch Entrepreneurial ... of our industry-leading power systems." As one of the first organizations to offer pay-as-you-go solar home systems, ZOLA made basic electricity services ... read more