Will Floating Solar Prove Pivotal in Archipelagic Philippines?
March 6th, 2024
Via EcoBusiness, a look at how floating photovoltaic systems can play a key role in Philippines’ renewable energy quest: Image: www.dantw.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr. In a growing number of developing nations, the push towards clean energy is ultimately a struggle over land use. Utility-scale solar and wind farms need at least 10 times more land per unit of power […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Reviving Historic City of Diriyah To Become New Cultural Capital
March 6th, 2024
Via Conde Nest Traveler, a report on how Saudi Arabia is reviving the historic city of Diriyah to become the Kingdom’s new cultural capital thanks to a government investment of $62.2 billion to develop the area into a leading regional and global hub for lifestyle, tourism, entertainment and culture: Around three hundred years ago from […]
Read more »The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Maldives, an island nation into which Asia’s two giants are crowding with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro: Between a few flecks of coral in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the blue. […]
Read more »Ethiopian Airlines Positioning Addis Ababa As e-Commerce Logistics Hub for Africa and Beyond
March 6th, 2024
Via the STAT Trade Times, a report on a new Chinese-built e-commerce logistics hub in Ethiopia that Ethiopian Airlines hopes will position Addis Ababa to be the cross-border e-commerce logistics hub for Africa and beyond: Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s biggest airline, inaugurated a state-of-the-art modern e-commerce logistics facility. The first-of-its-kind facility in Africa has been constructed […]
Read more »Sri Lanka Awards Energy Deal To India After Rejecting China
March 6th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a report on a recent Sri Lankan decision to award power contracts to India rather than China: Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power generation facilities to an Indian company after scrapping a tender won by a Chinese firm.New Delhi has long been concerned about […]
Read more »Cote d’Ivoire: West Africa’s Star
March 6th, 2024
Via BNN Bloomberg, a report on Cote d’Ivoire: Ivory Coast’s eurobonds rallied after the nation’s credit score was lifted by Moody’s Investors Service, which cited the resilience of the economy and rising private sector investments. The company raised the West African nation’s rating one level to Ba2, two levels below investment grade over the weekend. […]
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.