A Lender’s Perspective on Solar PV Technical Risks and Bankability
For a solar PV lender, the core challenge in ensuring the profitability of a PV investment lies in making correct assumptions at the planning phase…
Solar PV Quality Concerns in Africa
The need for a strong quality control, assurance and standards regime across the PV value chain in Africa is getting more critical. The associated costs…
Solarification of Deserts: the Case of Africa’s Sahara
From the pacific coastlines of the Atacama Desert to the sandy dunes of the Sahara; harvesting the abundant irradiance of the world’s deserts has become…
State of Adoption: Energy Efficient Appliances/Practices in Africa
For many African countries, Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) are either absent or loosely regulated. Poor legislation and absent will for enforcement, have now created…
Africa Amidst 2018 Global Solar Market Predictions
GTM Research’s new Global Solar Data Hub projects that, “2018 will be the first-ever triple-digit year for the global solar market, with an anticipated 106 gigawatts…
2017 and Recent African Solar Achievements
As the year 2017 draws to an end, it is imperative that Africa should measure its clean energy access achievements, re-evaluate its strategies and take…
Why Africa’s Fast Urbanizing Cities Should Think Solar?
The United Nations (UN) projects that urbanization rates will continue to increase in Africa, reaching 60% by 2050 from a mere 15% in 1960. This…
One Belt, One Solar Road: Exporting China’s Solar Strides to Africa
China is sometimes accused of practicing neocolonialism in Africa. However China’s relationship and footprints in Africa have mostly grown in the last few decades and…
Pico-Scale Solar for Pico-Rural Growth in Africa
For the so called Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in developing countries, energy needs can be quite simple. In predominantly rural communities, household power needs…
What’s the Current State of Solar Equipment Import Trade in Africa?
One of the fundamental impacts of energy poverty in Africa is the limiting influence on the growth of manufacturing. Manufacturing in several sectors in Africa…
