In 2014, the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) funded the Strengthening climate resilience project in the Kafue sub-Basin in Zambia. Engineer Indie Dinala, the project manager, told Africa Climate Conversations that farmers in the Kafue sub-basin would depend on wild fruits and wild tubers during drought. Also listen to how…
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Nairobi Kenya: Strathmore University in Kenya installed a 600 kWp grid-connected solar PV system in 2014. Today, the solar system meets the university’s electrical demands, with excess power supplied to the national grid under the first solar power purchase agreement (PPA) inked between Kenya Power and Lighting Company and the private university. A third of…
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Africa remains the world’s most energy-scarce continent. Nearly 600 million of the world’s 789 million people without access to electricity live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the abundance of energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and various fossil fuels, countries such as Kenya, Ghana, Eswatini, and Ethiopia have made significant efforts to electrify their populations….
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