Interview with Helvi Ileka from the Namibia Energy Institute

Namibia

Submitted by SOLTRAIN Administrator
Published 5 years, 1 month ago

Namibia is southern Africa´s front runner in terms of solar energy. Solar could provide energy security for the country which currently depends heavily on fuel imports. This includes power and water heating for homes, but also heat for the food and mining industry and desalination of water.

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Helvi Ileka was recently interviewed at the Solar World Congress in Abu Dhabi on how the roadmap of the Namibian government marks the shift towards solar.

Click here to view the interview on Youtube.

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SOLTRAIN is a regional initiative on capacity building & demonstration of solar thermal systems in the SADC region. The aim of SOLTRAIN is to support the target countries in changing from a largely fossil energy supply system to a sustainable supply structure based on renewable energy in general, and on solar thermal in particular.

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