Africa’s Best Energy Choice Is Geothermal

Africa’s Best Energy Choice Is Geothermal

Whereas geothermal development is a protracted process and requires significant risk-tolerant finance, dams and solar farms easily attract donor money, offering the kinds of quick victories politicians crave. But for Africa, geothermal energy may well be the key to more secure, sustainable, and affordable supplies.

Africa’s best energy choice is geothermal

Africa is on a quest to deliver universal energy access and advance green industrialisation, but it is still struggling to deliver reliable baseload electricity. Power outages and shortages cost Nigeria’s economy an estimated $26 billion annually, and Ethiopia and Uganda routinely face blackouts, as droughts reduce hydropower. Across the continent, expensive, polluting diesel generators are used to bridge the gaps, with Nigerian businesses, for …