April 7, (THEWILL)- Monday Wisdom needs regular power in his metal workshop in Sokoto, north-west Nigeria. But, unable to rely on the public grid, he depends on a diesel generator, at significant personal expense, pollution and noise. “I spend no less than 4,000 naira (about US$5) to purchase diesel on a daily basis,” he says.
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    7 months ago

    Yunnan province’s Department of Commerce donated 200 sets of off-grid photovoltaic equipment to rural Nigeria under the ‘Green Energy Africa, One Belt, One Road lightening Up of Thousands of Households’.

    Holy shit what if Nigeria leapfrogs the massive fossil fuel-driven industrial revolution and jumps straight into an electrified future?