Despite Africa's rich oil and gas reserves, environmental concerns and the high cost of the infrastructure needed to extract and refine hydrocarbons are driving a push towards renewable energy, particularly solar power. With the continent's population estimated to double by 2050, analysts expect that electricity demand will treble in Southern Africa and quadruple in East Africa in the next 25 years.
However, meeting this demand will require costly upgrades to infrastructure. "The
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