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.
Many buildings in Africa have their own fossil fuel electric generators. Reliable electricity removes the need for those, which does reduce emissions immediately.
Furthermore, improving people’s lives empowers them to help reduce emissions (or increase them). Reliable electricity frees up labor for things like washing clothes or cooking, which they can then use to work on, for example, regenerative agriculture like the Great Green Wall, which captures CO2 and further reduces the production of CO2 and chemical pollution from extensive farming practices.
It’s about having an alternative to building new coal fired plants.
Fantastic!
Reliable power enables so many things. Reducing costs, increasing capacity, and reliability is great.
