Financial derisking is key to provide electrification to Sub-Saharan Africa & standalone systems have a much larger role to play. New policy brief highlighting the importance of finance ahead of #COP27 based on our work published in Nature Energy.

Context matters and electrification models should reflect it.

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Spent the better part of last week at S-@ccess-conference sharing some insights from our work Energy and Technology Policy Group on the ever so challenging question - "where are mini-grids a cost competitive solution for rural electrification?" UIBCongrés UNDP Climate

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Immensely grateful for the exciting work that we have been upto over the past few years with amazing colleagues 🙌🏾. Here's a🧵 with some important takeaways particularly for international organizations working to scale off-grid electrification solutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

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How to reach electrification targets in sub-Saharan Africa? In a new Nature Communications publication, we suggest policymakers should use electrification supply curves -> see below. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚀Paper alert! Rural electrification (#SDG7) cost curves differ dramatically by (sub-Saharan African) country, which has major implications for public policy. Great news: the paper is open access! #energytwitter #ruraldevelopment #Africa

.Florian Egli, Churchill Omondi Agutu, Bjarne Steffen, et al find solar-powered standalone systems drastically lower the cost of electrifying sub-Saharan Africa. #HouseholdElectrification can be provided at 7c USD per person per day on average. Energy and Technology Policy Group Climate Finance and Policy Group nature.com/articles/s4146…

Authors -Florian Egli, Churchill Omondi Agutu, Bjarne Steffen & Tobias S Schmidt put a number to the cost of electrifying Africa. - "The cost of electrifying all households in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries by 2030" - nature.com/articles/s4146…