Featured in New market axis for trackers – 07-2016

New solar frontiers: Unconnected Africa

Off-grid Africa: As off-grid solar takes off in various markets worldwide, pv magazine spoke with the major players in the sector’s hotbed, Africa, where it is growing faster than anywhere else, and where innovation is playing a key role in bringing electricity to households for as little as $0.50 a day.
By
Sam Pothecary

Off-grid solar is growing at an unprecedented rate. In the second half of 2015 there was a 40% growth in sales worldwide compared with the first half of the year, according to the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association. But it is not growing in developed and well-established economies, but rather in emerging economies. In a case …

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