‘More people to have accessed to cheap solar energy by 2030’

Energy deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa said Zimbabwe has adopted a Sustainable Development Goal which will see more people have accessed to cheap solar electricity by 2030.Addressing delegates during a renewable energy webinar yesterday, Mudyiwa said solar energy will provide the cheapest source of electricity for many of the 600 million people across Africa who cannot access electricity today.

She said to date, Africa, a continent with the richest solar resources in the world, has installed only around five gigawatts (GW) of solar energy.

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