Africa has reached a defining moment in its energy transition. With some of the worlds richest solar, wind and hydro resources, the continent is rapidly scaling up renewable energy generation. However, a critical bottleneck threatens to derail this progress: the lack of adequate, modern and interconnected power grid infrastructure to move electricity from generation sites to where it is needed most.
Across the continent, hundreds of renewable energy projects from utility-scale solar farms in the Sahel to wind parks along Africas coastlines are unable to connect to national or regional grids due to limited transmission capacity, outdated infrastructure and insufficient investment in new power corridors.
This growing gap between power production and power delivery is now one of the most urgent challenges facing Africas clean energy ambitions.
