Mini-grids are one of the rare areas in Africa’s energy transition where consensus exists. They work. They deliver reliable power faster than grid extension, cleaner power than diesel, and more...
Across Africa, electricity grids are failing more frequently and for more reasons than ever before. Floods wash away transmission lines, heatwaves overload transformers, conflict knocks out...
I still remember the first time I saw electricity reach a village.It was late in the 1990s, and I was a boy visiting my grandmother’s house in Cross River State, Nigeria. A single light bulb...
Every evening in Lagos, the city begins to hum with the roar of generators. The noise rises like a second atmosphere, mechanical and relentless, from every corner of the city. A barber restarts his...
There is a sentence repeated in nearly every African energy policy document: “universal access by 2030.” It is optimistic, visionary and mathematically impossible. With just five years to go, Africa...
As the sun sets over a village in northern Tanzania, the solar-powered mini-grid hums to life, lighting homes that were once in darkness. Children gather around charging phones, shop owners keep...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 600 million people still lack access to electricity. In conflict-affected regions, this problem is compounded by displacement, insecurity, and crumbling infrastructure....