There is a better way to help Africa’s emerging economies than Western-style power grids

Through the UAE Consensus reached at Cop28 in Dubai last December, negotiators secured historic commitments to expand renewable energy. Today, work is under way to deliver on that pledge, as governments, companies and civil society take action to increase access to affordable, clean power.

Nowhere is this transformation more urgently needed than in Africa, where 660 million people still live without electricity in their homes and hundreds of millions more rely on unstable grid connections. Expanding power at such a scale is difficult on its own – doing it sustainably is even harder.

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