In this article published in “La Tribune Afrique”, Catherine Dupuy Burin des Roziers, partner in the Energy department, and Anaïs Reilhac discusse how independent power producers are providing support for the challenges of financing renewable energy in sub-Saharan Africa.

Independent power generation projects in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be an important vector for “expanding access to electricity to the 600 million people who are still deprived of it.”

In November 2020, Eswatini (the former Swaziland), a landlocked country in Southern Africa, issued a call for expressions of interest to independent power producers (IPPs) for the development of an 850 kWp photovoltaic power plant at the international airport.

In Mali, the French energy group Akuo Energy, an independent power producer, recently commissioned the Kita power plant, the largest photovoltaic plant in sub-Saharan Africa.

These initiatives echo the World Bank’s 2016 report which considers that independent power generation projects in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be an important vector for “expanding access to electricity to the 600 million people who are still de projects in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be an important vector for “expanding access to electricity to the 600 million people who are still deprived of it.”

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