{"id":8379,"date":"2020-03-02T08:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"africa-grapples-with-clean-energy-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/02\/africa-grapples-with-clean-energy-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Grapples With Clean Energy Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Africa is both the world&#8217;s least electrified continent\nand the most vulnerable to climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as the continent with\nthe world&#8217;s fastest growing population, the decisions that African politicians\nmake to boost power supplies could have an impact both locally and globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conundrum is how to\nmeet the demand for energy without making the climate situation worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a large amount of\ninvestment, much of it from overseas, going into renewable sources. But the\ncontinent also has untapped reserves of oil and natural gas, which it aims to\nexploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa&#8217;s largest power\nproducer, South Africa, faces an additional dilemma of moving away from\ncoal-fired power stations, which produce nearly all of its energy. It is one of\nthe dirtiest fuels, and is damaging the health of some of the people living\nnear where it is burnt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than two thirds of\nthe population of sub-Saharan Africa, more than 600 million people, lack access\nto electricity. But electrification on the continent is still growing more\nslowly than anywhere else in the world, despite pledges to light up Africa in\nthe next few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rise of renewable power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investment is going into\nsolar power, wind power and hydropower projects across the continent as part of\nefforts to change the energy mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Kenya unveiled\nAfrica&#8217;s largest wind farm near Lake Turkana. More than 350 turbines can\nproduce up to 310 MW, which is about 17% of the country&#8217;s current daytime\nenergy demand, the company behind the wind farm says. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-51615647\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC News Africa is both the world&#8217;s least electrified continent and the most vulnerable to climate change. And as the continent with the world&#8217;s fastest growing population, the decisions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}