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- Patrick Dapaa Kwao and David Bernell
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Power system managers around the world are increasingly facing significant challenges with expanding and sustaining the integration of solar energy technologies. This is the result of both its variable generation and the rapid pace of market growth.
- Nik Stoop, Elie Lunanga, Marijke Verpoorten and Sébastien Desbureaux
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More than 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. About 384 million live in countries classified by the World Bank as conflict-affected, where poverty, insecurity and weak institutions make large energy infrastructure investments risky.
- Sun-Connect News
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After 15 years, we will be discontinuing our service for the off-grid sector. Since 2010, we have been providing up-to-date information, in-depth analysis, and practical insights for experts and practitioners. What began as a small news platform has grown over the years into one of the leading information sources for decentralized energy.
- Louis Strydom
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Last year, I argued in my piece “Lean Carbon, Just Power”, that a limited and temporary increase in African carbon emissions is justified to meet the continent’s urgent electrification needs.
- John Musenze
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In rural Uganda a lack of reliable power means mothers are often forced to give birth in the dark. Now a new solarisation project is bringing light and reliable electricity to health centres across the country.
- David Ehl | Privilege Musvanhiri
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Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It’s one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.
- Rachel Bonnifield and Caroline Mallory
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Solar energy is a central plank of the green energy revolution, with widespread adoption in high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) alike. In LMICs, these technologies—and off-grid solar systems, in particular—are favored by individuals and development partners for their apparent win-win-win.
- Alba Topulli and Todd Moss
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Energy is essential to Africa’s development, but progress has stalled over a false choice: Should the continent prioritize the basic solar home systems that move households up the energy ladder — or should it invest in making electricity cheaper and more reliable for businesses to power job creation and economic growth?
- Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon
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For Africa, the clean energy agenda cannot be framed as a matter of global urgency translated into continental compliance. It must be ‘glocalised’, by adapting to local political economies, governance realities, historical trajectories of (under) development, and importantly, a consideration of indigenous energy systems.
- David Richard Walwyn, University of Pretoria
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South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy as possible into the national grid.
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