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Mini-grids are not a technology problem. They are a regulatory one.
Across four West African markets the hardware works. What stalls is licensing, tariff approval and the rules for what happens when the main grid arrives.
- 019′Mini-grids are not a technology problem. They are a regulatory one.
- 026′The cheapest water reform on the continent is a shared spreadsheet
- 0311′Secondary cities are where African climate risk is actually accumulating
- 047′Explainer: the water-energy nexus, without the jargon
- 055′Adoption is not the finish line for clean cooking
- 066′Explainer: why energy efficiency programmes underperform their models
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- Licensing at speed: mini-grid regulation in West Africa
- Shared water, separate mandates: basin institutions under stress
- Downscaled climate risk for secondary African cities
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