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Africa’s energy gap is deeply intertwined with its digital divide. In rural and underserved areas, where energy access is most limited, mobile operators often depend on diesel generators—a costly, polluting, and inefficient solution.
The deployment of BESS has already demonstrated substantial benefits in various contexts. In many African nations, BESS-powered microgrids are providing clean and affordable electricity to remote communities, fostering economic development and improving quality of life.
Battery energy storage systems allow solar grid generation to become a 24/7 baseload supply to the national grid, as it stretches power availability. Further, Kenya should facilitate the widest possible off-grid generation and use of solar energy as a regulatory practice. Smaller remote towns can be served with battery-supported solar generation.
Solar power has been heavily promoted as an answer to Africa’s energy needs, but the transition to large-scale adoption is fraught with challenges, including high costs, logistical barriers, and the need for climate-resilient infrastructure amid increasingly extreme weather.
A group of scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) are joint collaborators on a R70 million Swansea University-led research project to develop and manufacture sustainable perovskite solar modules (PSMs) in Africa, empowering local communities and promoting sustainable energy.
By globally collecting end-of-first-life solar panels, batteries, and energy storage systems, GE4A refurbishes, reengineers, and repurposes this equipment into high-performance Energy Hubs—decentralized networks that deliver affordable, reliable clean energy.
The ambitious World Bank Group-backed Mission 300 initiative aims to connect 300 million people to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Bold reforms, investments and an enabling environment for sustainable, scalable and affordable energy solutions are needed to achieve these aims.

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