Off-grid power development in Africa needs support to prevent at least 30-million people from losing electricity access after disruptions related to the global pandemic caused many distributors to struggle to remain operational, according to a new report. Solar technology and other off-grid solutions have brought power to about 60 million people over the last decade, but restrictions designed to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 slowed providers down, causing funding shortages and delays, researchers at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford wrote in a policy brief.
