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- 60 Decibels
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60 Decibels, a leading social impact measurement company, is proud to announce the publication of Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024, the world’s most comprehensive impact assessment of the off-grid sector to date.
- Efficiency for Access Coalition
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Humanitarian settings are often located in regions with poor infrastructure and limited access to electricity. Host governments can be reluctant to invest and build sustainable infrastructure in these areas, as they are seen as temporary solutions.
- Gathu Kirubi
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Let’s start with a simple thought experiment – imagine a young girl (27) delivers a baby in a typical off-grid rural village in Kenya. One day, she’s highly excited about her new baby girl. The next day she’s highly anxious because she can’t find a place to vaccinate her baby.
- GOGLA
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When one GOGLA member developed a gender action plan for their distribution operations, they noticed for the first time that women were self-excluding from lease-to-own offers due to perceptions that they did not meet traditional bankable criteria such as land-ownership or other cultural aspects.
- Ian Scoones and Hussein Wario
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‘As policymakers consider irrigation investments in the drylands, the past disappointing experiences of large-scale schemes must be taken into account.’
- Brian Kawuma
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The report indicates that replacing just five fossil-fuel-powered processes in African agriculture with Distributed Renewable Energy solutions (DREs) could result in a continent-wide 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and generate economic benefits of up to $24.5 billion annually.
- Chris Greacen / Ashish Shrestha / Bernard Tenenbaum
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Traditionally, mini grids have been viewed as “off-grid” systems that are built and operated solely for communities without electricity. The reality, however, is that millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa and India who are connected to the main grid suffer from poor grid reliability (“weak grid”)…
- Penny-Jane Cooke
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In the vast expanse of sub-Saharan Africa, a dynamic revolution in transportation is quietly reshaping the landscape. Electric vehicles (EVs) are emerging as beacons of promise, offering cleaner and more affordable means of travel and goods transportation.
- Startup|Energy
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Startup|Energy has been supporting African startups in the field of decentralised renewable energies since 2019. A new programme is now targeting a often neglected group of people: innovators from universities.
- Anthony Randazzo
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Around 700 million people living in developing countries, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, lack access to electricity, while several billion have either no power or only intermittent access from unstable, unreliable electricity grids.
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