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…
Upscaling Local Solar and Renewables: Keys to Unlocking Universal Energy Access, Sustainable Development
A new study from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) highlights the “revolutionary” role distributed, local solar and other renewable energy resources…
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…
Solar Power Saving Lives
The continued rollout of renewable energy around the world has the potential to save millions of lives in Third World countries in the coming decades,…
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…
In conversation...Africa Mini-grid Developers Association (AMDA)
Sam Slaughter, a founding member of the newly formed Africa Mini-grid Developers Association (AMDA), tells Power for All that it’s time for the mini-grid sector to move…
Strauss Energy’s Solar Roof Tiles Light Up a School, Students’ Lives in Kenya
So-called “building integrated (solar) photovoltaic (BIPV)” energy technology is considered a keystone of distributed solar and renewable energy proponents’ grand vision of economies and societies…
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…
Solar-Storage Mini-Grid Makes an Impact at Africa’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Water, energy and food – the three are inextricably intertwined and increasingly challenging to access or provide on a basis that’s sustainable economically, environmentally and…
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…
