Renewable Energy Champion Kenya Plans Africa’s Biggest Wind Farm
October 2nd, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on Kenya’s plans to build Africa’s biggest wind farm: KenGen to dislodge Africa’s biggest farm with 1,000MW facility About 92% of Kenya’s generating capacity is from renewables Kenya Electricity Generating Co., the East African nation’s main power producer, plans a 1,000 megawatt wind farm that would be the continent’s biggest such […]
Read more »Philippine, Bangladesh Power Giants: Gas Needed in Green Transition
October 2nd, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on developing Asia’s massive electricity demand: Booming Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh need natural gas to meet domestic energy demand as they shift to greener sources, according to their leading power providers. AboitizPower, the power generation arm of Philippine conglomerate Aboitiz Group, and Bangladesh’s largest power provider Summit Power International […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia’s $800 Billion Tourism Plan Starts To Take Shape
October 2nd, 2023
Via The Circuit, a look at Saudi Arabia’s $800 billion tourism plan which – with a target of 200 hotels at its mega-project Neom and a new hospitality school – is charting a path to 70 million visitors a year; Four years after opening up to international tourists for the first time, Saudi Arabia marked […]
Read more »The Shadowy Chinese Firms That Own Chunks of Cambodia
October 1st, 2023
Courtesy of BBC, a report on a shadowy Chinese firms that own chunks of Cambodia: The highway runs through the forest like a black ribbon, down to the sea and to what must be one of the world’s largest tourism projects. Fifteen years after it began, there is still not much to see of the […]
Read more »Tanzania to Take Critical Minerals Stage, After Signing $1B in Deals with Australia, US
October 1st, 2023
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, an article on Tanzania’s efforts to advance its critical minerals industry: Hon. Dr. Steven L. Kiruswa, Deputy Minister of Minerals of Tanzania, will join a high-level line-up of speakers at the upcoming Critical Minerals Africa (CMA) 2023 summit, affirming the country’s position as a leading mining hotspot. As demand for green […]
Read more »China-Afghan Relations: The Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions
October 1st, 2023
Via The Geopolitics, commentary on the Chinese-Afghan relationship: On Sept. 12, 2023 Afghanistan welcomed China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan Zhao Sheng. China is one amongst a handful of nations to have kept working missions in Kabul ever since the Taliban captured power in Afghanistan – in August 2021. Diplomats currently stationed in Kabul with the […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.