Why are 600 mn Africans still without power?, This is a question the Financial Time tries to answer as the continent remains woefully disconnected from the grid.
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Investment tends to prioritize new power generation projects over installing robust transmission and distribution infrastructure, leading to an inefficient and poorly maintained grid that results in USD 5 bn of energy being lost in sub-Saharan Africa each year.
“A lot more investment needs to go into systems that can actually handle the upsurge of power that is to come,” said Zainab Usman, director of Carnegie’s Africa Program, blaming a “fixation” on power generation.
