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Makueni County Referral Hospital is the biggest health facility in its area of rural Kenya, treating approximately 500 patients a day in a region where modern infrastructure can be hard to come by. But its operations are costly. The local government spends about Ksh. 24 million ($187,000) each year on the facility’s electricity bills alone.
Access to clean energy remains a considerable challenge and a top govement priority in Kenya. Digital innovations become essential for optimization, monitoring, regulation and financing. Startup|Energy has called on innovators and spin-offs from Kenyan universities to take part in the Award for Digital Innovations in Clean Energy .
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The Rwanda Energy Survey highlights significant progress in expanding electricity access, with 63.9% of households now connected,though rural areas and refugee camps still face substantial gaps in both electricity and clean cooking services. Targeted policies are needed to address these disparities and advance toward universal energy access by 2030
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Low and middle-income countries generally lack access to renewable energy and rely excessively on traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal. In these countries, 2.6 billion people depend mainly on polluting fossil fuels (for electricity) and traditional biomass fuels (such as wood or charcoal for cooking) to meet their daily energy needs.
Over the past decade there has been a consistent and notable upward trend in mini-grid installations globally. Installations are over six times higher compared with 2018. This growth, particularly notable in sub-Saharan Africa, underscores the increasing recognition of mini-grids as a feasible solution for electrification in remote areas.
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The study examines how prepaid metering systems in Ghana’s urban poor communities exacerbate energy poverty due to affordability and reliability issues, suggesting the need for a redefined energy access approach and increased investment in renewable energy.
Financial justice for emerging markets is a huge problem and one that will not be solved by more collaborative impact standards on their own. But they will certainly help demonstrate that impact investment markets are not only high integrity, but also highly effective.
The ILO STRENGTHEN2 project is conducting employment impact assessments of investments in sub-Saharan Africa to promote the creation of more and better jobs. This report presents an employment impact assessment (EmpIA) of the second phase of the Green Mini-Grid Facility Programme in Kenya.
A cohort of women in solar business completed several course.
A target of skilling at least 300 female middle level managers drawn from different solar companies in Uganda will be meet before end of year, according to the sub sector highlights.

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