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Title
Off-Grid Solar Market Assessment & Private Sector Support Facility Design
Publisher
ECREEE and World Bank Group
Published in
July 2019
Abstract
Access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa has improved significantly over the past decade. The number of people without access to electricity in the region stopped increasing for the first time in 2013 and has since declined.9Although gridconnections continue to be the primary method of electrification, access to electricity through off-grid renewable energy systems has grown considerably. The use of off-grid solar (OGS) power is notably on the rise, with African countries accounting for most of the sector’s growth over the last decade (Figure ES-1). Thepace of solar electrification has accelerated more rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere in the world.10In order to achieve universal electrification by 2030, the International EnergyAgency (IEA) estimates that Sub-Saharan Africa will need more than half of new electricity access connections between 2017 and 2030 to be made through decentralized systems (mini-grids and stand-alone systems), with solar technologies representing nearly 60% of these connections.
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