Water Day'26: Fairaction Nigeria debuts solar-powered ‘Smart Water’ solutions - ITREALMS

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As the global community commemorates World Water Day 2026, Fairaction Nigeria has called for a technology-driven approach to ending 'water poverty,' unveiling its Sustainable Smart Water Infrastructure (SWIs) as a blueprint for climate-resilient utility management in rural Africa, reports ITREALMS.

Speaking at a keynote address in Arulogun, Akinyele Local Government Area, the National Coordinator of Fairaction Nigeria, Dr. David Tola Winjobi, emphasized that traditional water projects are no longer sufficient to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.

$100,000 up for grabs @solar ‘Shark Tank’ Competition

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The Dutch development bank, FMO and Access Power, a leading developer, owner and operator of power projects in emerging markets, have jointly launched the 2018 FMO Access Power Solar 'Shark Tank' Competition, seeking submissions for a solar projects, while dangling US$100,000 grant, reports ITRealms.

The call for 2018 submission follows the successful completion of the first installment in 2016 at the ‘Making Solar Bankable’ conference. The initiative is aimed at helping local solar power developers that require development support to make their innovative solar projects more impactful.

To be considered for the grant, ITRealms gathered that the proposed projects must be located in Asia, Africa or Latin America and be based on solar PV technology, in addition to meeting the capacity criterion of 10MW or more, and be at an advanced stage of development. Further, eligible projects should have an innovative or impactful angle to the project that could be developed with support of the grant.

Proposals, ITRealms also reports, will be screened and scored by a pre-selection committee assembled by FMO and Access Power, while the top four shortlisted will be invited to present their projects and answer questions from a panel of judges in front of a live audience on the 15th of February 2018 during the second edition of the 'Making Solar Bankable' conference, co-organized by FMO and Solarplaza in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 15 and 16 February.

“The winning project will be announced at the end of the session during the event,” the organisers disclosed, adding that the winner will receive a $100,000 grant towards the development costs of their project from FMO and Access Power.

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Multipower targets telcos with inverters, solar solutions

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 An authorized distributor for Exide in Nigeria, the Multipower Global Solutions Ltd is targeting telecommunications with grade battery and inverters with index battery as well as solar solutions, reports ITRealms.

The company which claimed to be one of the most trusted  power backup solution brands emerging in Nigeria, ITRealms gathered, that through the authorized distributors for Exide in Nigeria, customers could get get premium quality Exide (Index) deep cycle batteries especially meant for corporate sector. 

Onyinye Egwuatu of corporate services, Multipower, informed ITRealms that “Exide is one of the oldest largest manufacturers of batteries having footprints in this industry since world war 1.”

She also said they are at present into nearly all kinds of batteries, to name a few- deep cycle, useful for telecom, traction among others, thus they specializes in building customized industry solutions for various sectors.

 

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