Experts: Private Investments Could Fast Track African Energy

Energy experts say there is an urgent need for additional public and private investment to bring more electricity to Africa. They say governments need to work with the private sector to bridge power capacity gaps. While sub-Saharan Africa has enormous untapped resources of gas, oil, coal, geothermal, solar, hydro and wind power, World Bank experts say one out of three Africans lives without electricity. Stephen Njiru, a director of Kenya’s Geothermal Development Company and an energy...

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