The take-off in African solar that official statistics can't yet see | Ember

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Full Report PDF Dataset - Solar additions by country

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Ember: Matt Ewen, Daan Walter, Kingsmill Bond, Nic Fulgham, Kostantsa Rangelova, Rini Sucahyo, Rashmi Mishra, Sachin Sreejith and Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart.

Reviewers

We thank our external reviewers Mark Clinton Thurber (Stanford University), Rose Mutiso (African Tech Futures Lab), Tanaka Shumba-Mukudu (Sustainable Energy Africa) as well as Bhoomika Tiwari and Chris Gross (GET.transform).

Cover image

Aerial view of rooftop solar in Africa

Credit: Sustainable Energy Africa

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