Norman Moyo, CEO of Econet Group-owned Distributed Power Africa, believes Africa can solve its power supply woes by unleashing the private sector in the same way as has happened in telecommunications.
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Africa Data Centres, a pan-African company that provides data services, has expanded its use of solar power by ordering the installation of a 1.2MW plant at its facility in Nairobi.
Liquid Telecom, Africa’s biggest fibre company, has turned to solar power in South Africa, where recurrent power outages shut businesses temporarily earlier this year.
Zimbabweans are relying on Tesla to help them pay their bills. Amid power outages of as long as 18 hours a day, Econet Wireless is turning to the Palo Alto, California-based automaker for batteries that can keep its base stations running.