> What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling #solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working.
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> […] 400,000 new solar installations every month across Africa. 50% market share captured by companies that didn’t exist 15 years ago. Carbon credits subsidizing the cost.

https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

Climate Drift