In South Africa, many low-income families who’ve never had electricity can’t afford solar power. Solar mini-grids could help.

For emerging markets in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, transmission and distribution have long been overlooked and underinvested, despite its critical role in delivering energy services to the ...

The mini-grid, expected to connect over 1,500 residents to electricity, is part of the company’s wider plans to install over 20 mini-grids in Benin, which will serve more than 30,000 people across 20 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by ...

On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, the Delta State Executive Council (EXCO) approved an innovative State Electricity Policy by adopting a decentralized mini-grid model and also establishing new regulatory ...

Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) touted its success at the recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), with the group noting it has deployed more than ...

In its latest monthly column for pv magazine, the International Solar Alliance (ISA) explains how to expand the deployment of mini-grids for electricity access, especially in less developed countries.

The electric grid is rapidly becoming more complex as centralized, fossil-based generators are replaced by renewable, inverter-based resources, such as solar PV. The inherent variability of renewable ...

The latest intervention, supported by the Government of the Republic of Korea, has seen the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) commission a combined 1MW solar hybrid mini-grid system in partnership ...

Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has inaugurated a 500KWp solar-hybrid mini-grid worth N1.2bn in Kafin Hausa Local Government Area, marking a major step toward improving power supply and economic ...

The management of some of the largest manufacturers of mini-grid solar systems plan to raise up to $46 billion for the electrification of 29 African countries under the World Bank program. This is ...