Off-Grid Renewable Energy

Roughly 57 percent, or 600 million, of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to reliable and consistent power. USADF’s off-grid energy grants promote market-based solutions that connect people to electricity. Over the past five-year period (2017-2021), we provided over US$11 million in grant funding to more than 100 African enterprises to bring […]

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A New Study Reveals How Renewables Could Power Africa By 2040

Over half of Africa’s people – about 600 million – lack access to even the bare minimum of electricity. The tough question to answer is how access can be extended without adding to global warming by relying on fossil fuels. We – a team from Rwanda and Germany who work in the field of renewable energy […]

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