Africa
Creating a Profitable Balance
More than 600 million people across sub-Saharan Africa lack access to reliable electricity, creating significant cost for homes, businesses, and utilities. Understandably, this has translated into aggressive national installed capacity targets, with nations across East and West Africa aiming for increases of between 1.3 and eight times by 2020. Our…
Closing the Circuit, Stimulating End-Use Demand For Rural Electrification
Electrification’s ultimate measure of success in developing nations—and its real contribution—is to both meet basic humanitarian needs and underpin economic development. But most electrification programs focus on expanding supply with limited investment devoted to enabling end uses that drive productivity improvements and meet critical needs. In this report, we make the case…
Reliable and Affordable Electricity for Nigeria: Growing the Minigrid Market
Today in Nigeria 65 percent of the population—over 100 million people—does not have access to reliable electricity. The situation is even more dire in rural areas, where only 36 percent of inhabitants have access to a centralized power source. While demand for rural…