Publication date: February 2022
Author: UNEP DTU Partnership
Description: In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), electrification through decentralized renewables-based solutions (particularly solar PV) has advanced significantly over the past decade. Going forward, this transition to clean energy has a significant potential in addressing integrated challenges including access to energy, job creation, skills development and local economic development (IRENA, 2019, 2020). Maximizing local benefits from this clean energy transition is important for the host countries in order to achieve SDG 7 goals, to sustain a longer-term commitment to low-carbon development pathways (IRENA, 2018), and not least to recover in a post-COVID reality (SE4ALL 2020).
