Featured in Spark of a yellow sun – 07-2022

Spark of a yellow sun

This year, pv magazine’s annual In Conversation special turns its focus to the world’s most sun-rich continent – Africa. Despite its wealth of solar resources, approximately 600 million Africans lack access to electricity. But with the energy transition accelerating the world over, Africa’s solar resources could have an enormous impact both domestically and through exports. We’ve conducted a series of interviews from across the vast continent and the broad market of solar energy, ranging from Egypt to South Africa and agriPV to green hydrogen production, and we’ve only just scratched the surface.

The world is changing at a disorienting speed, but that speed is also driving great innovation and adaptation. The transition to renewable energy is perhaps the most demonstrative example of this phenomenon. But even despite the disorienting rate of change we must be weary not to make the mistakes of the past.As the century turns …

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