Power Africa’s community-oriented approach to energy infrastructure development helps electricity entities build capacity to engage customers and local communities for mutually beneficial outcomes. Energy infrastructure development is about more than megawatts; it enables better health care, education, economic growth, and other sustainable development outcomes. Power Africa is leading an approach…

Power Africa and private energy companies are lighting up homes, connecting rural communities to the broader world, and boosting economic prospects across sub-Saharan Africa. …

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Power Africa are supporting electricity utilities to enhance productive energy use to local businesses, benefiting both entrepreneurs and utilities and creating positive ripple effects for communities. With a small coffee farm under cultivation, Joel Rusubika invested time and hard-earned money to establish…

Senegal seeks to reach universal electricity access by 2025. Continued collaboration between Power Africa and the national electricity utility, Senelec, is helping to realize this goal. In the past year, we connected more than 200,000 consumers to the national grid. Just over half of Senegal’s population has access to reliable…

Africa’s majestic animals and its evolving energy infrastructure are increasingly coming into contact. As electricity access is extended across the continent, Power Africa and the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) are working together to minimize the danger to animals and the risks to energy utilities. In the protected areas and national…

Consumers in Somalia pay some of the world’s highest prices for electricity. Private energy service providers (ESPs) charge up to $0.65 per kilowatt-hour to deliver electricity through isolated diesel-powered grids that are unreliable and have a large carbon footprint. Even at these high prices, many ESPs fail to recover the…

Today’s young people are more technologically adept than ever before. Do they still believe the old gender tropes about STEM? “Girls are just naturally bad at math and science.” This is one of many long-running and harmful stereotypes about girls’ abilities to study and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering…

Power Africa and the national electricity utility harnessed data to accelerate Côte d’Ivoire’s progress toward universal electricity access In Côte d’Ivoire, where you live plays a significant role in your access to electricity: nearly all households in urban areas have power, whereas only about one-third in rural areas do. …

Power Africa is supporting power development companies, governments, and financiers across the region to harness the power of the sun and expand electricity access for millions With its terrain and natural resources, West Africa has the potential to expand its use of renewable energy across the region. Many West African…