Financing Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
This is a the first of a multi-part series examining alternative methods for electricity utilities in debt distressed countries to uncover the investment financing required to rebuild critical infrastructure to improve efficiency, modernize and continue to serve to population with cost reflective tariffs. While renewable based minigrids are seen as the key to improving electricity access and feed sectionalizing and fault location and isolation the keys to reliability and resilience, all of these infrastructure projects require funding – funding that is often directed towards debt servicing or other essential services. We are not discussing overnight solutions but rather longterm sustainable practices that are firmly grounded in the principles of sustainability and circular economy. Independence, self-reliance and strong frameworks are some of the key requirements to starting this journey. Part 1 : Introduction As countries in sub-Saharan Africa continue to grapple wi