Mozambique’s local tobacco and energy industry

Dear Sir or Madame,

as a part of a project together with the companies “GP-Joule” from Reußenkönige and “Reinstein” from Langenhorn, I am researching about Mozambique and it’s local tobacco and power industry.
As we all know the drying of the tobacco leafs is done with wooden fires. For this process, there is a lot of forest chopped off. That’s a big problem regarding to climate change and sustainability of forests in Mozambique.
We thought about a solution to use renewable energy for drying the tobacco leafs, so the trees aren’t chopped down anymore.
For this project we have to know whether there are regulations of entering the tobacco marked or selling energies and machines to local farmers.
Also, if you’d got a contact, who has got knowledge about the energy sector in Mozambique or the tobacco sector please let me know.

best wishes and regards!

tabakpflanze

Henrik Brammer

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Africa holds key for 21st century business – new McKinsey book

Africa, the second-largest continent by size, holds the key for business operations in the 21st, and global business leaders who misunderstand the region are in danger of missing out on one of great growth opportunities in the third millennium, a new book by McKinsey & Company says.

The book, released November 20, confirms that Africa is poised for economic acceleration, similar to the Asian boom that produced what became known as the Asian Tigers. However, the authors conclude that while other regions are witnessing incremental growth, “global companies that get in early and join the African champions shaping the right strategies, can sustain double-digit profit growth over the next few decades.”

Authors of “Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market,’’ say that the continent is bigger than most people imagine, in terms both of physical size and resource potentials.

“Africa is bigger than you think – it dwarfs China, Europe, the United States and India”, the authors of the book say. They declare that the size of the mismatch between global perception and the continent’s on-the-ground reality provoked them to write the book.

The book was written by two McKinsey and Company executives – Leke and Desvaux, both Senior McKinsey Partners and Chironga, an executive at Nedbank, one of South Africa’s largest banking group.

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€739 million of foreign investment in renewable energy

The Moroccan government announces a solar and wind rush. Close to 8 billion dirhams, or 739 million euros, of foreign investment from Western powers and the Middle East are flowing in to support projects in the renewable energy sector.

“For us, Morocco is the gateway to Africa,” said Abdulla Falah Abdulla Al-Dosari, Qatar’s ambassador to Morocco. Present in Casablanca on October 24, 2018, at the opening of the Elec Expo Forum, the Qatari diplomat said that companies in his country are seeking to establish joint ventures with major Moroccan groups in the field of energy.

Although Qatar’s expertise in hydrocarbons is much more recognised, it is one of the many foreign powers (the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Emirates) whose companies will release an investment of 108 billion Moroccan dirhams, or about 10 billion euros, in various sectors, including electricity, which alone receives an envelope of 739 million euros (8 billion Moroccan dirhams). According to Aziz Rabbah, Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development, these investments will also create thousands of jobs.

Morocco, which wishes to join the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has a new and attractive element to offer through these investments. The subregion has a market of 1.2 billion people, more than half of whom do not have access to electricity. Morocco’s ambitions will therefore contribute to transforming the constraints into investment opportunities for reducing the electricity deficit in ECOWAS member countries, and become a power pool for West Africa.
Morocco wants to produce 7 times the amount of wind energy installed on the continent

The sectors targeted by foreign Moroccan joint ventures are: solar, wind and energy efficiency. For example, the additional wind energy needs that remain to be installed are estimated at 7 GW, whereas the continent can only produce 1 GW today. “We have the opportunity to take up this challenge,” said Abderrahim El Hafidi, Director General of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (Onee).

Morocco has refined its energy strategy to better meet the challenges in terms of supply security, access to energy and environmental protection. Target: increase the share of renewable energy to 42% of installed capacity by 2020 and to 52% by 2030. With that in mind, the national programmes will involve an additional capacity for electricity production from renewable sources of about 10,100 MW, including 4,560 MW from solar, 4,200 MW from wind and 1,330 MW from water, which will reduce the Kingdom’s energy dependence from 94% to less than 82% in 2030.

Boris Ngounou

Source: Afrik21
The Moroccan government announces a solar and wind rush. Close to 8 billion dirhams, or 739 million euros, of foreign investment from Western powers and the Middle East are flowing in to support projects in the renewable energy sector.

“For us, Morocco is the gateway to Africa,” said Abdulla Falah Abdulla Al-Dosari, Qatar’s ambassador to Morocco. Present in Casablanca on October 24, 2018, at the opening of the Elec Expo Forum, the Qatari diplomat said that companies in his country are seeking to establish joint ventures with major Moroccan groups in the field of energy.

Although Qatar’s expertise in hydrocarbons is much more recognised, it is one of the many foreign powers (the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Emirates) whose companies will release an investment of 108 billion Moroccan dirhams, or about 10 billion euros, in various sectors, including electricity, which alone receives an envelope of 739 million euros (8 billion Moroccan dirhams). According to Aziz Rabbah, Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development, these investments will also create thousands of jobs.

Morocco, which wishes to join the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has a new and attractive element to offer through these investments. The subregion has a market of 1.2 billion people, more than half of whom do not have access to electricity. Morocco’s ambitions will therefore contribute to transforming the constraints into investment opportunities for reducing the electricity deficit in ECOWAS member countries, and become a power pool for West Africa.
Morocco wants to produce 7 times the amount of wind energy installed on the continent

The sectors targeted by foreign Moroccan joint ventures are: solar, wind and energy efficiency. For example, the additional wind energy needs that remain to be installed are estimated at 7 GW, whereas the continent can only produce 1 GW today. “We have the opportunity to take up this challenge,” said Abderrahim El Hafidi, Director General of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (Onee).

Morocco has refined its energy strategy to better meet the challenges in terms of supply security, access to energy and environmental protection. Target: increase the share of renewable energy to 42% of installed capacity by 2020 and to 52% by 2030. With that in mind, the national programmes will involve an additional capacity for electricity production from renewable sources of about 10,100 MW, including 4,560 MW from solar, 4,200 MW from wind and 1,330 MW from water, which will reduce the Kingdom’s energy dependence from 94% to less than 82% in 2030.

Boris Ngounou

Source: Afrik21

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