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- Sun-Connect News
After 15 years, we will be discontinuing our service for the off-grid sector. Since 2010, we have been providing up-to-date information, in-depth analysis, and practical insights for experts and practitioners. What began as a small news platform has grown over the years into one of the leading information sources for decentralized energy.
- Louis Strydom
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Last year, I argued in my piece “Lean Carbon, Just Power”, that a limited and temporary increase in African carbon emissions is justified to meet the continent’s urgent electrification needs.
- John Musenze
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In rural Uganda a lack of reliable power means mothers are often forced to give birth in the dark. Now a new solarisation project is bringing light and reliable electricity to health centres across the country.
- Ellen Fungisai Chipango
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Zimbabwe’s 2019 renewable energy policy envisions a transition to green energy in which women and men participate equally and benefit equitably.
- David Ehl | Privilege Musvanhiri
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Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It’s one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.
- George Kamau
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A small room filled with solar panels and wiring diagrams ends up raising a much larger question about how Kenyans plan to power everyday life
- Pam Jagger, Charles B.L. Jumbe, Congyi Dai, Ryan McCord and Thabbie Chilongo
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Access to electricity is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable development. It improves quality of life, enables household income generation, and raises living standards. Despite this, 760 million people around the world live without it.
- Rachel Bonnifield and Caroline Mallory
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Solar energy is a central plank of the green energy revolution, with widespread adoption in high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) alike. In LMICs, these technologies—and off-grid solar systems, in particular—are favored by individuals and development partners for their apparent win-win-win.
- Alba Topulli and Todd Moss
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Energy is essential to Africa’s development, but progress has stalled over a false choice: Should the continent prioritize the basic solar home systems that move households up the energy ladder — or should it invest in making electricity cheaper and more reliable for businesses to power job creation and economic growth?
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