Off-grid solar electricity is among the solutions the African Development Bank and World Bank are backing under their Mission 300 program to halve the continent’s energy gap: Around 600 million Africans lack access to reliable electricity. Nigeria was chosen for the study by the Africa Policy Research Institute, a Berlin-based think tank, as it has the fastest-growing market for private minigrids in sub-Saharan Africa.
Earlier this month, Renewvia Energy Corp., a US solar minigrids firm that operates in Kenya and Nigeria, said it was expanding into DR Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda.