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For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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I'd heard about this before. I'm reluctant to even call this a climate thing. While its certainly good for the climate if Africa isn't reliant on fossil fuels, the primary thing here is that its an improvement to people's lives, not that it reduces emissions.
Amazing work though.
It's about having an alternative to building new coal fired plants.