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Edith Kikonyogo | Africa’s Hybrid Energy Edge: Where Risk Can be Turned Into Resilience and Sustainability

The cost of electricity in sub-Saharan Africa is 3,188% of income per capita making it the highest globally and nearly 3.5 times the cost of the next highest region, South Asia. While precise continent-wide gross domestic product (GDP) loss figures aren’t universally agreed on, the World Bank and a variety of academic institutions agree that unreliable and expensive energy supply…