Goal 7 of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services and increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. This target provides an opportunity as well as a challenge to African...

Goal 7 of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services and increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. This target provides an opportunity as well as a challenge to African...

Among the challenges facing Africa’s energy sector is the dearth of sustainable financing. The reasons for this challenge include are inadequate capacity of local funding sources to finance energy projects, inefficient offtakers, high interest rates among others. This implies that although Sub...