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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Globally, more than 660 million people still lack access to electricity \u2014 and 85% of them reside in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

Washikala Malango was one of these people.<\/p>\n

Malango was born and raised in Baraka, a village on the shores of a vast lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His off-grid childhood was not particularly unusual: even today, around 78% of the population in the country has no access to electricity, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n

He recalls spending mornings at school and afternoons playing soccer in the streets, and at dusk, returning home to share the light of a kerosene lamp in the kitchen, where his mother prepared dinner.<\/p>\n

There was no reading or studying in the evening: \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t even buy enough kerosene to even make enough light (to last) until 9 or 10 p.m. Then you spend the rest of the night in the darkness,\u201d he recalls. One evening, when a candle was left burning after hours, his cotton-filled mattress caught fire, and he awoke gasping through mouthfuls of smoke.<\/p>\n

In the mid-1990s, during the Congolese civil war, Malango and his childhood friend Iongwa Mashangao fled Baraka. The teenagers ended up together in a refugee camp in Tanzania, which also lacked electricity.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelying on dirty and expensive sources of energy for lighting, for powering appliances, for learning, this had a very negative impact on our household\u2019s income, on our health,\u201d says Malango. These early experiences motivated Malango and Mashangao to launch Altech in 2013, a startup that provides easy-to-install home solar kits to bring reliable electricity to off-grid communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really wanted to contribute to the eradication of energy poverty in the DRC, given what we experienced growing up,\u201d says Malango.<\/p>\n

Unlimited, but underfunded<\/p>\n

Made up of 54 countries, Africa gets more sunshine hours than any other continent. It has some of the highest levels of solar irradiance \u2014 the power of the sun per square meter \u2014 in the world, with \u201calmost unlimited\u201d potential for solar energy according to the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n

Solar has been touted as the obvious solution to provide clean energy to the millions of people living without electricity.<\/p>\n

Yet the continent had just 21.5 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency. By comparison, China, the global leader in solar power, added 198 GW between January and May this year alone.What\u2019s holding solar back in Africa?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem that you have in many African countries is that you have scattered, low density population centers,\u201d says Bruno Idini, an analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA).Issues vary from country to country, but national grids often struggle to expand beyond cities due to high infrastructure costs and bottlenecks, regulatory hurdles, unclear government policies, and sometimes, conflict and unrest.<\/p>\n

When it comes to solar, these issues are compounded with the high upfront costs of large-scale farms.<\/p>\n

Multinational projects aim to address these challenges, such as the \u201cMission 300\u201d initiative, which has seen 29 nations pledge policy changes in a bid to improve energy access in the region and connected 30 million people so far.<\/p>\n

An aerial view of solar panels at Ayama Winery on February 4, 2024 near Windmeul in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.<\/p>\n

An aerial view of solar panels at Ayama Winery on February 4, 2024 near Windmeul in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. David Silverman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

One of the most ambitious projects is the African Development Bank\u2019s Desert-to-Power Initiative, launched in 2018. It aims to bring 10 gigawatts of solar power to 11 countries in the Sahel region \u2014 Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan \u2014 by 2030, potentially benefiting 250 million people.<\/p>\n

However, more than halfway through the project\u2019s timeline, only a fraction of its solar capacity has been financed. Its progress has been hindered by civil unrest, including five coups over three years, with six of the project\u2019s 11 participating nations listed as conflict-affected by the World Bank in 2024.In the past two decades, Africa has seen just 2% of global investment in renewables, despite its extensive untapped renewable resources.<\/p>\n

The IEA estimates that it would cost $25 billion annually to bring universal electricity access to the continent by 2030 \u2014 and while investment in renewables in Africa is growing, particularly in the private sector, it still falls short of what\u2019s needed to meet renewable targets.<\/p>\n

Off-grid solutions<\/p>\n

While utility-scale solar still dominates the sector, distributed solar is expected to account for 42% of solar PV expansion in the next five years, according to the IEA.<\/p>\n

These home solar systems and mini grids could \u201cserve as a bridge while waiting for the grid,\u201d says Heymi Bahar, senior renewable energy markets analyst at the IEA, and lead author of agency\u2019s renewables report.Falling costs make solar a \u201cno-brainer\u201d compared to fueling diesel generators for many families, says Bahar. However, he adds that the initial upfront capital required for solar PV remains a barrier \u2014 it\u2019s estimated that only 22% of households without electricity can afford a \u201ctier 1\u201d solar kit, which equates to four hours of electricity daily \u2014 so government policies, venture capital, and seed funding environments play crucial roles in promoting solar adoption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is no help from the government in terms of either financing or micro financing systems, it\u2019s quite difficult to pay for all this upfront for many people in Africa,\u201d says Bahar.<\/p>\n

The biggest barrier for investors in off-grid projects is \u201cwhether the grid will come or not, or when it will come \u2014 because you don\u2019t want people to invest in a massive off-grid infrastructure, and then two years later, the grid comes,\u201d says Bahar. Clear policies and transparent planning can \u201cde-risk\u201d these projects to attract external financing, he adds.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, startups like Altech are making a dent. Their business model allows customers to pay for the solar kit over several months, rather than upfront. According to the UN, the average daily income in the DRC is $3.92, which made even a seemingly small upfront payment of $13 for a solar lamp out of reach, says Malango.<\/p>\n

Altech introduced mobile payments in 2022, to facilitate its pay-as-you-go solar kits, ranging from entry-level lighting systems that cost around 50 cents per day over 100 days, to more comprehensive \u201cpower systems\u201d that include products like an induction cooking stove and freezer, which cost $1 per day for five years.<\/p>\n

Malango says that the most popular solar home system includes two 50-watt solar panels, designed to support a television, radio, soundbar, fan, phone charger and two bulbs, and costs around 50 cents per day, paid over 3 years.Without the solar systems, households would spend hundreds of dollars annually to get kerosene canisters that would support basic lighting and cooking needs.<\/p>\n

Malango says that the most popular solar home system includes two 50-watt solar panels, designed to support a television, radio, soundbar, fan, phone charger, and two bulbs. On the larger systems, customers pay a small down payment and the rest over 2 to 5 years.<\/p>\n

Beyond economic savings, these off-grid solar systems improve quality of life: reliable lighting allows children to study at night and improve their educational performance, and households can reduce their exposure to harmful pollutants from kerosene, and the negative health impacts from accidental fires and smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n

Even small things, like charging a mobile phone, become infinitely easier and cheaper, says Malango: people would typically go to diesel generator-powered charging shops, spending between $1-$3 to charge their phone, which could also be lost or stolen during charging.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they can charge at their own place, anytime, so it has also helped a lot,\u201d adds Malango. To date, the company has reached over 2.5 million people in the DRC.<\/p>\n

The quest for energy equity<\/p>\n

Decentralized energy solutions like Altech are becoming increasingly important in the quest for energy equity.<\/p>\n

According to the IEA, around a quarter of electricity connections in sub-Saharan Africa between 2020 and 2022 were provided by off-grid solar systems.<\/p>\n

Other enterprises across the continent are also filling the gaps in the main grid: Kenyan startup M-Kopa was one of the first in the pay-as-you-go solar sector in 2011, and has since successfully pivoted its business expanding into digital finance, smartphones and e-mobility.<\/p>\n

Izili, formerly Baobab+, raised over $21 million for its operations in Nigeria, Senegal, Madagascar, and Ivory Coast, where it\u2019s brought solar kits and off-grid cooking stoves to 2 million people and counting. In South Africa, LightBox Africa provides micro-financed solar kits repaid over three years.<\/p>\n

And Congolese startup Nuru, which means \u201clight\u201d in Swahili, focuses on solar mini grids for remote communities. In 2023, it secured $40 million to build the largest mini grid in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

These off-grid energy solutions are often providing \u201cfirst time access to African households,\u201d which given the continent\u2019s large youth demographic \u2013 70% of sub-Saharan Africa is under 30 \u2014 can help provide opportunities for the next generation, says IEA analyst Idini.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s sort of a vicious cycle \u2014 you don\u2019t have power because you cannot pay for it, but you cannot pay for it because you don\u2019t have power,\u201d says Idini. \u201cThat\u2019s where solar home systems and mini grids can play a very big role.\u201d<\/p>\n

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