Solar powered peanut dryers in Togo are helping women-run cooperatives reduce their workload and increase their profits. Despite the initial success of the solar dryers, there are challenges that remain for scaling up this innovation.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing €3.73 million in financing to Togo. The funding will enable the Togolese government to prepare the implementation of a project to electrify 317 localities via solar mini-grids.

Togo hopes to achieve 100% electricity coverage by 2030, against 59% now. By then, the share of renewables in the energy mix should be 50%, according to the country’s ambitions.

Winner of the 2022 “Tremplin Start-up” competition of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), entrepreneur Nadjagou Lalle Yentaguime is supporting rural electrification in Togo with his intelligent solar panels.

EDF and Bboxx will use the loan to expand Bboxx’s activities in the country in order to reach the government-set goal of servicing 1.5 million people by 2030. In addition, the loan will also support local smallholder farmers to access solar-powered irrigation.

French Development Agency (AFD) and the German Development Agency (KfW) are providing €40 million in financing, half of which will be used to finance solid waste management in the Togolese capital. This loan is part of the fourth phase of the Lomé Urban Environment Project (PEUL IV) which aims to improve the living conditions of 2 mln inhabitants.

In Togo, the authorities are cancelling the payment of import duties on electric vehicles. These vehicles will now benefit from government approval as part of a policy to accelerate the green economy in this West African country.