Small Grants to Fuel Africa’s Renewable Energy Boom?
Just outside the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, where Burkina Fasos lush southern expanses begin to give way to the sands of the Sahara Desert, is the Kodnisolar plant. Row after row of solar panels sit amid intermittent shrubs, channeling at their peak 38 megawatts of clean, inexpensive, electricity into Burkina Fasos national grid. The power is enough to supply 115,000 homes. And it is badly needed. Just one in five Burkinabes have access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency.
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