SUNNY AFRICA’S SOLAR POWER STRENGTHS COULD UNDERPIN SUSTIANABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
January 22nd, 2023
International solar energy providers are finding business opportunities in Africa as national governments and their development agency partners try to foster growth while targeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG), which encourages access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030 (1).
This will not be easy to achieve in Africa, despite the continent’s abundant sunlight, and wide availability of solar panels able to turn this into electricity. According to the Paris-based International Energy Agency’s ...
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