The Djibouti Government has announced work is underway on a 300 MW solar PV plant. Around EUR 360 million will be invested in the project, which is being undertaken by Switzerland’s Green Enesys. The goal of the African country is to procure 100% of its energy from renewables. Djibouti’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has announced that initial construction work is underway on what is planned to be a 300 MW solar PV plant. If completed, it will become one the biggest of its kind in the world.
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In 2013, Greensburg, KS — a town of less than 800 residents about 100 miles from Wichita — became the first city in the United States to go 100 percent renewable, powering their homes, businesses, and municipal buildings via wind power. In 2014, Burlington, VT joined Greensburg, becoming the largest city in the United States to be powered by renewable energy sources. A year later, Aspen, CO, joined the coalition, becoming the third city in the United States to go 100 percent renewable. It took just three years for three U.S. cities to make the transition to 100 percent clean energy — and experts in the field of renewable energy, as well as several prominent environmental groups, expect that pace only to quicken in the coming years. Just last month, San Diego — the country’s eighth-largest city — made a legally binding commitment to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035. In total, 12 U.S. cities — including San Francisco, CA, Georgetown, TX, and Ithaca, NY — have made commitments to transition to 100 percent clean energy, though many have yet to solidify those commitments as law. Hoping to push more cities toward this renewable energy transition, several environmental groups are launching campaigns this year aimed at garnering commitments from cities and institutions like universities and corporations. The Sierra Club — one of the country’s largest grassroots environmental organizations — just launched a new #ReadyFor100 campaign, a nationwide effort aimed at getting 100 cities and 100 organizations to commit to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy.
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